Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Author :
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780748647125
ISBN-13 : 0748647120
Rating : 4/5 (120 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by : Graham MacPhee

Download or read book Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies written by Graham MacPhee and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism. He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as 'British national literature', 'new ethnicities', 'migrancy' and 'hybridity'* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood, Tony Harrison's V, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and Ian McEwan's Saturday


Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies Related Books

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Graham MacPhee
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-08 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

GET EBOOK

Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalis
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Graham MacPhee
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-08 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

GET EBOOK

Explores a wide range of writers through the lens of postcolonial theory, focusing on themes of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national ident
Post-War British Literature and the
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Matthew Whittle
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-03 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe,
Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Rajeev S. Patke
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-20 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

GET EBOOK

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studiesNeither modernity nor colonalism
Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Suvir Kaul
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-25 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

GET EBOOK

'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured b