Dalley, Hamish
The Postcolonial Historical Novel
Part I. Epistemologies of Historical Realism
1. The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism
Hamish Dalley
2. Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel
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Part II. Allegories of Settlement
3. Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville’s
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4. The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman’s
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Part III. Narrating Transnational Histories
5. Deterritorialising Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera’s
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6. Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
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Part IV. Melancholy Realisms
7. Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani’s
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8. Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan’s
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9. Conclusion: the Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis
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Nyckelord: Literature, African Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Asian Literature
- Författare
- Dalley, Hamish
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 236 sidor
- Kategori
- Litteraturforskning
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137450098
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-49693-8