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Post-colonial theory and English literature : a reader /
Unlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics include cannibalism, slavery, the harem, missionary work, gender, nationalism and the Rushdie affair. The book off...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh [Scotland] :
Edinburgh University Press,
c1999.
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| 020 | |a 0748610685 (pbk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 0748610693 (hbk.) |c Rs. 1195.00 | ||
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Post-colonial theory and English literature : |b a reader / |c edited and with an introduction by Peter Childs. |
| 260 | |a Edinburgh [Scotland] : |b Edinburgh University Press, |c c1999. | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 445 p. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The tempest / William Shakespeare -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- A passage to India / E.M. Forster -- The satanic verses / Salman Rushdie. | |
| 520 | |a Unlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics include cannibalism, slavery, the harem, missionary work, gender, nationalism and the Rushdie affair. The book offers practical examples of applying theoretical arguments to specific texts. Key features: * Provides three or four cutting edge essays on each of the following texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Bronte's Jane Eyre; Kipling's Kim, Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Joyce's Ulysses; Forster's A Passage to India; Rushdie's The Satanic Verses | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Colonies in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English literature |x History and criticism |x Theory, etc. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imperialism in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literature and history |z English-speaking countries. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Postcolonialism in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Postcolonialism |z English-speaking countries. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Childs, Peter, | |
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