This is an overview of responses to literary texts overtly associated with the colonial project or the construction of "race" (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello), as well as to texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is less obvious (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The postcolonial con-texts are located within their social and cultural backgrounds, and the different forms their responses take to their pre-texts are explored. Thieme argues that "writing back" is seldom adversarial. Rather, it operates along a continuum between complicity and oppositionality. He also suggests that post-colonial appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate re-readings of their "originals". The book concludes by considering the implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics and literary genealogies more generally.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-8264-5465-2 (9780826454652)
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University of East Anglia, UK
Introduction - parents, bastards and orphans; Conrad's hopeless binaries - "Heart of Darkness" and post-colonial interior journeys; "On England's Desert Island Cast Away" - protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays; reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts - Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes; turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"; encountering other selves - re-staging "The Tempest"; removing the black-face - a different "Othello" music; conclusion - narrative agency in Pauline Melville's "The Ventriloquist's Tale".