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UNINA9910819754503321 |
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Green Diane |
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Titolo |
Emyr Humphreys : a postcolonial novelist? / / Diane Green |
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Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Collana |
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Writing Wales in English |
CREW series of critical and scholarly studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Novelists, Welsh - 20th century |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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General Editor's Preface; Postcolonialism and Wales: the Effects of Cultural Imperialism; A serious Welsh novelist': Redressing the Balance; The Emergence of Humphreys as a Postcolonial Writer; The Consolidation of Strategies in Outside the House of Baal; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Myth; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous History in 'The Land of the Living' Sequence; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of History in the Independent Novels of the 1980's and 1990's; Monstering and Disabling: Paradigms and Tropes of Dispossession |
Postscript: Speaking Welsh in English - a Postcolonial Purpose Notes; A Selected Bibliography of Emyr Humphreys's Fiction and Essays; A Selected Bibliography of Writing on Emyr Humphreys's Works; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. |
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