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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808348603321

Autore

Bohata Kirsti

Titolo

Postcolonialism revisited : writing Wales in English / / Kirsti Bohata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2004

ISBN

1-299-20046-X

0-7083-2236-0

1-4237-4138-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

CREW series of critical and scholarly studies

Disciplina

820.99429

Soggetti

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

00PR_Prelims.pdf; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Theoretical Contexts; 01PR_Main.pdf; 2 Stereotypes of Alterity: Race, Sexuality and Gender; 3 En-gendering a New Wales: Nationalism, Feminism andEmpire in the Fin de Siècle; 4 The Battle for the Hills: Politicized Landscapes and theErasure of Place; 5 'Devices of Otherness'? Code-switching, Audience and thePolitics of Language; 6 Hybridity and Authenticity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures.