Helen Kapstein

Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism

Reading Real and Imagined Spaces

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Produktbeschreibung

Considers how real island spaces have been used in literary texts and the popular imagination to shore up the fiction of the nation in order to offer a new theory of postcolonial nationalism.

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Produktdetails

• Rethinking the Island
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781783486465
• ISBN-10: 1783486465
• Artikelnr.: 43363648

Autorenporträt

Helen Kapstein is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On Violence and Visuality
Chapter I. A Literature of Failure: Reading Foe and Defoe
Chapter II. On Seeing England for the First Time (Again)
Chapter III. "A New Kind of Safari": Gunesekera's Sri Lanka
Chapter IV. The Rim of Things
Chapter V. "Every Native Would Like a Tour"