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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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Childs, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, c1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.