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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787015203321

Titolo

Ex-centric writing : essays on madness in postcolonial fiction / / edited by Susanna Zinato and Annalisa Pes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6908-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Classificazione

HP 1130

Disciplina

823.0099171241

Soggetti

Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism

Commonwealth fiction (English) - Themes, motives

Mental illness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The concern with identity and belonging, with place/dis-placement is a major feature of postcolonial literature and the theme of alienation cannot but be ""topical"" in the literatures of the countries that have experienced the cultural shock and bereavement, and the physical and psychic trauma of colonial invasion. The purpose of this volume is to qualify the difference one is faced with when a postcolonial ex-centric text is addressed, by collecting essays concerned with writers from Southern...