Colonial and postcolonial literature
migrant metaphors
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1112783M
- ISBN-100192892320
- OCLC Control Number31241739
- OCLC Control Numbercolonialpostcolo0000boeh
- Library of Congress Control Number94038661
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- Goodreads1336057
- LibraryThing661403
Classifications
- DDC820.9/9171241
- LCCPR9080 .B64 1995
Alternate Titles
- Colonial & postcolonial literature
Description
Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee - postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. In this book, Elleke Boehmer looks challengingly at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing in the Empire in the Victorian period. Throughout this literature key themes and images - journeying, loss, the search for community, the arrival of the stranger - are expanded and redefined. Boehmer discusses these with reference to a broad range of texts, from Trollope, Kipling, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield, to authors as recent as Ben Okri and Michael Ondaatje, and the Aboriginal Australians Sally Morgan and Mudrooroo.
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