Postcolonial Nationalism Amp Islcb

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.

Sommario

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"

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Kapstein
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783486458
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-645-8
• Serie: Rethinking the Island; Rethinking the Island
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura