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The Postcolonial Historical Novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts de H. Dalley

The Postcolonial Historical Novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts

Autor H. Dalley
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The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137450081
ISBN-10: 1137450088
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: X, 226 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Note on the Text PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF HISTORICAL REALISM 1. The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism 2. Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel PART II: ALLEGORIES OF SETTLEMENT 3. Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville's The Secret River 4. The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman's The Captive Wife PART III: NARRATING TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES 5. Deterritorializing Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea 6. Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun PART IV: MELANCHOLY REALISMS 7. Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani's Song for Night 8. Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish 9. Conclusion: The Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

Hamish Dalley is Assistant Professor of World Literature at Daemen College, Amherst, New York, USA. His research focuses on historical representation and literary form in various branches of postcolonial fiction.