Colonial and postcolonial literature : migrant metaphors / Elleke Boehmer
- Bib ID:
- 50363
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
- Description:
-
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- 304 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0192892320 (paperback)
- Summary:
-
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.
- Full contents:
-
- 1. Imperialism and Textuality
- 2. Colonialist Concerns
- 3. The Stirrings of New Nationalism
- 4. Metropolitans and Mimics
- 5. Independence
- 6. Postcolonialism and Beyond.
- Notes:
-
- "An OPUS book"--Half t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
- Subject:
-
- Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries
- Culture conflict in literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Intellectual life
- Also Titled:
- Colonial & postcolonial literature
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Colonial and postcolonial literature / Elleke Boehmer
- The writer written : the artist and creation in the new literatures in English / Jean-Pierre Durix
- The Colonial and the neo-colonial encounters in Commonwealth literature : papers delivered at the seminar, Post-graduate Department of English and the Centre for Commonwealth Literature and Research, 21-25 September 1981 / edited by H.H. Anniah Gowda
- Recasting the world : writing after colonialism / edited by Jonathan White
- Ni xie di guo : hou zhi min wen xue de li lun yu shi jian / Bi'er Axikeluofute, Jialeisi Gelifeisi, Kailun Difen zhu ; Liu Ziquan yi