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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815546503321

Autore

Dalley H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-49693-6

1-137-45009-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/81

Soggetti

African literature

Literature   

Fiction

Oriental literature

African Literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

Asian 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 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 Deterritorialising Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea

6 Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow SunPart 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; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.