Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon / John Thieme.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
Main Author:
Thieme, John
Series:Literature, culture, and identity
Subjects:
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > Appreciation > Commonwealth countries.
Commonwealth literature (English) > English influences.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Decolonization in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Intertextuality.
Commonwealth countries > In literature.
Format: Book
Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon /
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: parents, bastards and orphans
  • 2. Conrad's 'hopeless' binaries: Heart of Darkness and postcolonial interior journeys
  • 3. 'On England's Desert Island cast away': protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays
  • 4. Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes
  • 5. Turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
  • 6. Encountering other selves: re-staging The Tempest
  • 7. Removing the black-face: a different 'Othello music'
  • 8. Conclusion and postscript: narrative agency in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale.

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