H. Dalley
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2014
9781349496938
The Postcolonial Historical Novel
Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2014
ISBN13: 9781349496938
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349496938
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Note on the Text PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF HISTORICAL REALISM 1. The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism 2. Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel PART II: ALLEGORIES OF SETTLEMENT 3. Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville's The Secret River 4. The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman's The Captive Wife PART III: NARRATING TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES 5. Deterritorializing Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea 6. Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun PART IV: MELANCHOLY REALISMS 7. Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani's Song for Night 8. Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish 9. Conclusion: The Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis Bibliography Index