The postcolonial country in contempo...
Loh, Lucienne, (1977-)

 

  • The postcolonial country in contemporary literature /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/9171241
    書名/作者: The postcolonial country in contemporary literature // Lucienne Loh, Associate Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
    作者: Loh, Lucienne,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: 1900 - 2099
    標題: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism. - 20th century
    標題: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism. - 21st century
    標題: Landscapes in literature.
    標題: Postcolonialism in literature.
    標題: Rural conditions in literature.
    標題: Commonwealth literature (English)
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    ISBN: 1137314613 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137314611 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Introduction: Foreign fields that will be forever England -- The politics of postimperial melancholia and rural heritage in the 1980s: W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn -- Rural routes of empire, colonial nostalgia and the thatcher years: V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival -- Contemporary Black Britain and the English countryside: David Dabydeen's Disappearance and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore -- Towards a provincial cosmopolitanism: Amitava Kumar's Bombay London New York -- A distinctly uncosmopolitan present: the postcolonial rural in Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps -- Historicising neocolonial globalisation and political revolution: Jamaica Kincaid's A small place -- Epilogue: Local futures, global fissures.
    摘要、提要註: This book represents a shift in postcolonial literary criticism by bridging postcolonial studies in Britain with the wider postcolonial world through the concept of 'the postcolonial country', a term which collectively represents the English countryside and Britain as nation, but also rural spaces all across the ex-colonies. Drawing on a range of contemporary writers as diverse as W.G. Sebald, V.S. Naipaul, David Dabydeen, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh and Jamaica Kincaid, "The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature" assesses the contemporary legacies of the vast rural networks of empire that once connected rural England to the hinterlands of the British colonies. This book argues that these legacies manifest themselves as a celebration of Britain's rural heritage industry in the 1980s on the one hand, and on the other, they also contribute to the persistent and exploitative processes of neocolonial globalization in the postcolonial countryside.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137314611
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