The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

Herausgeber: Quayson, Ato

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781107588059
• ISBN-10: 1107588057
• Artikelnr.: 44272156

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the postcolonial novel in a changing frame Ato Quayson
2. The colonial novel Tim Watson
3. The postcolonial novel in the wake of 1989 Debjani Ganguly
4. Magical/realist novels and the politics of the possible Zoe Norridge
5. Nature, ecocriticism, and the postcolonial novel Anthony Carrigan
6. Disability and the postcolonial novel Clare Barker
7. Gender, sexuality, and the postcolonial novel Evan Mwangi
8. The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee
9. Itineraries of the sublime in the postcolonial novel Philip Dickinson
10. The postcolonial crime novel Stephen Knight
11. The gleam and the darkness: representations of the city in the postcolonial novel Rashmi Varma
12. Space and the postcolonial novel Robert Zacharias
13. Tragedy, alienation, and the postcolonial novel Ato Quayson.