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Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature : A Reader / Peter Childs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610686
  • 9781474465700
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Colonial History, National Identity and 'English' Literature -- 1. William Shakespeare: The Tempest -- 2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe -- 3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre -- 4. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness -- 5. Rudyard Kipling: Kim -- 6. James Joyce: Ulysses -- 7. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX OF NAMES
Summary: 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
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Colonial History, National Identity and 'English' Literature -- 1. William Shakespeare: The Tempest -- 2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe -- 3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre -- 4. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness -- 5. Rudyard Kipling: Kim -- 6. James Joyce: Ulysses -- 7. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX OF NAMES

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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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