ENGLISH

Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader

By Peter Childs

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781474465700
DOI
10.1515/9781474465700
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52100400 bytes)
Pages
456\454
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 02:27:22

Description

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

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