03826nam 22007335 450 991078781950332120200919214105.01-349-49693-61-137-45009-610.1057/9781137450098(CKB)2670000000569745(EBL)1809337(SSID)ssj0001348071(PQKBManifestationID)12546855(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348071(PQKBWorkID)11362873(PQKB)10479920(SSID)ssj0001617976(PQKBManifestationID)16348222(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001617976(PQKBWorkID)14920358(PQKB)11619205(MiAaPQ)EBC1809337(DE-He213)978-1-137-45009-8(EXLCZ)99267000000056974520151119d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Postcolonial Historical Novel[electronic resource] Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts /by H. Dalley1st ed. 2014.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-16957-8 1-137-45008-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Sea6 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; IndexThe 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.African literatureLiterature   FictionOriental literatureAfrican Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000African literature.Literature   .Fiction.Oriental literature.African Literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Fiction.Asian Literature.809.3/81Dalley Hauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1562194BOOK9910787819503321The Postcolonial Historical Novel3829601UNINA