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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.

List of contents

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"

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Kapstein
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486458
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-645-8
• Series: Rethinking the Island; Rethinking the Island
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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