Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature

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ISBN 10: 0748610693 / ISBN 13: 9780748610693

Edité par Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgo, 1999

A propos de cet article

Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature brings together some of the most significant post-colonial readings published in the last fifteen years. As such, the Reader makes widely accessible for the time important analyses of commonly taught literary texts wich have become touchstones in post-colonial theory. In very good internal and external condition. Size: 24'5x17 cms. Ref.: Idiomas 3 - 3.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature
• Éditeur: Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgo
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0748610693
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780748610693
• Reliure: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
• État de l'article: Muy bien
• Poids: 770 grammes

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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Childs is Dean of Research and Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire where he teaches twentieth-century and post-colonial literature. He has published widely in the areas of modern writing, British culture and critical theory.