The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction - Couverture rigide

George, Rosemary Marangoly

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521453348 ISBN 13 : 9780521453349

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Politics of Home examines changing representations of 'home' and reveals the multiple relocations that occur in twentieth-century English literatures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Politics of Home draws attention to the multiple relocations that take place in literatures in English in the twentieth century by examining the changing representation of 'home' in such narratives. Through an exploration of imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that complex literary allegiances are visible in textual reformulations of 'home' and that George's concept of 'global English' challenges the very logic of literary landscapes organised in accordance with national boundaries. Reading Englishwomen's narration of their success in the empire against Conrad's account of colonial masculine failure, Frederic Jameson alongside R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai and other contemporary Indian writers with the British Romantic poets in mind, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamacia Kincaid, and Conrad through Naipual and Ishiguro, The Politics of Home explores the privilege and pain underlying 'feeling at home' in literature.

Revue de presse

'Throughout the book, George examines an impressive array of authors, texts, discourses, cultural practices, material institutions, and ideologies in which both formulations come into play. In its sustained intertextuality and its ability to take propositions and turn them around in order to generate a productive unease, The Politics of Home is an intellectually stimulating and absorbing reconfiguration of postcolonial cultural studies.' Aparajita Sagar, Diaspora

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521453348
• ISBN 13: 9780521453349
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 275
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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