LEADER 03622nam 22007935 450 001 9910963077003321 005 20240801025202.0 010 $a9781349496938 010 $a1349496936 010 $a9781137450098 010 $a1137450096 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137450098 035 $a(CKB)2670000000569745 035 $a(EBL)1809337 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001348071 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12546855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348071 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11362873 035 $a(PQKB)10479920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001617976 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16348222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001617976 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14920358 035 $a(PQKB)11619205 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1809337 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-45009-8 035 $a(Perlego)3490144 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000569745 100 $a20151119d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Postcolonial Historical Novel $eRealism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts /$fby H. Dalley 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781322169576 311 08$a1322169578 311 08$a9781137450081 311 08$a1137450088 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a6 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 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aLiterature 606 $aFiction 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aAsian Literature 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a809.3/81 700 $aDalley$b H$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01790777 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963077003321 996 $aThe Postcolonial Historical Novel$94327512 997 $aUNINA