03622nam 22007935 450 991096307700332120240801025202.0978134949693813494969369781137450098113745009610.1057/9781137450098(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(Perlego)3490144(EXLCZ)99267000000056974520151119d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Postcolonial Historical Novel 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.9781322169576 1322169578 9781137450081 1137450088 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 literatureLiteratureFictionOriental literatureAfrican LiteratureWorld LiteratureFiction LiteratureAsian LiteratureAfrican literature.Literature.Fiction.Oriental literature.African Literature.World Literature.Fiction Literature.Asian Literature.809.3/81Dalley Hauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1790777BOOK9910963077003321The Postcolonial Historical Novel4327512UNINA