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Considers how real island spaces have been used in literary texts and the popular imagination to shore up the fiction of the nation in order to offer a new theory of postcolonial nationalism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On Violence and Visuality / Chapter I. A Literature of Failure: Reading Foe and Defoe / Chapter II. On Seeing England for the First Time (Again) / Chapter III. "A New Kind of Safari": Gunesekera's Sri Lanka / Chapter IV. The Rim of Things / Chapter V. "Every Native Would Like a Tour"

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Helen Kapstein is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY.

Zusammenfassung

Considers how real island spaces have been used in literary texts and the popular imagination to shore up the fiction of the nation in order to offer a new theory of postcolonial nationalism.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Helen Kapstein
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486458
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-645-8
• Serien: Rethinking the Island; Rethinking the Island
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Kulturgeschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Nationalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature