Postcolonial Con-Texts [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Back to the Canon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451451003321
• Autore: Thieme John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2002
• ISBN: 1-281-29833-6; 9786611298333; 1-84714-311-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Collana: Literature, Culture, and Identity
• Disciplina: 820.9; 820.99171241
• Soggetti: Canon (Literature); Commonwealth literature (English); Decolonization in literature; English literature; Intertextuality; Postcolonialism; Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Commonwealth countries; English literature - Appreciation - Commonwealth countries; Commonwealth literature (English) - English influences; Postcolonialism in literature; English Literature; English; Languages & Literatures; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: parents, bastards and orphans; 2 Conrad's 'hopeless' binaries: Heart of Darkness and postcolonial interior journeys; 3 'On England's Desert Island cast away': protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays; 4 Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontës; 5 Turned upside ; down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs; 6 Encountering other selves: re-staging The Tempest; 7 Removing the black-face: a different 'Othello music'; 8 Conclusion and postscript: narrative agency in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale; BibliographyIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colon