This volume explores how postcolonial historical fiction can be a valuable resource for thinking about the prehistory of our present. It examines how novels from, and about, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds present specific historical and oceanic instances of colonialism and highlights the continuities between the colonial era and our own.
This volume explores how postcolonial historical fiction can be a valuable resource for thinking about the prehistory of our present. It examines how novels from, and about, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds present specific historical and oceanic instances of colonialism and highlights the continuities between the colonial era and our own.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Greg Forter is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of two books, Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel (New York UP, 2000) and Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2011). He has also published articles on American literature, modernism, psychoanalysis, gender and feminist studies, and postcolonial studies.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Atlantic and Other Worlds: Postcolonial Historical Fiction * 1: Cartographies of the Untimely in Postcolonial Historical Realism: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies * 2: Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things * 3: Tragedy, Romance, Satire: The Genres of Anticolonial Resistance in J. G. Farrell's he Siege of Krishnapur and Marlon James's The Book of Night Women * 4: The Politics of Hybridity-Mimicry in Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat * 5: From National Bildung to Postcolonial Transnationalism: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows * Afterword
* Introduction: Atlantic and Other Worlds: Postcolonial Historical Fiction * 1: Cartographies of the Untimely in Postcolonial Historical Realism: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies * 2: Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things * 3: Tragedy, Romance, Satire: The Genres of Anticolonial Resistance in J. G. Farrell's he Siege of Krishnapur and Marlon James's The Book of Night Women * 4: The Politics of Hybridity-Mimicry in Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat * 5: From National Bildung to Postcolonial Transnationalism: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows * Afterword
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