The non-literate other [[electronic resource] ] : readings of illiteracy in twentieth-century novels in English / / Helga Ramsey-Kurz |
Autore | Ramsey-Kurz Helga |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (517 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.91409 |
Collana | Costerus |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literacy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0471-3
1-4356-0078-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLITERACY AS A THEORETICAL ANATHEMA -- IN THE HUMANITIES: TABOOED -- IN LITERARY STUDIES: IGNORED -- ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME -- ILLITERACY IN EARLIER FICTION -- ILLITERACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION: HEART OF DARKNESS -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHOUT: UNLETTERED CALIBANS IN DISTANT EUROPE -- UNEARTHING THE PRE-LITERATEMIND: WILLIAM GOLDING’S THE INHERITORS -- PROJECTIONS OF A POST-LITERATEMIND: ANGELA CARTER’S HEROES AND VILLAINS -- POSTCOLONIAL RETURNS TO A PRE-LITERATE EUROPE: DAVID MALOUF’S AN IMAGINARY LIFE AND GILLIAN BOURAS’ APHRODITE AND THE OTHERS -- THE NON-LITERATE IN SIGHT: THE UNLETTERED NATIVE IN CONTACT NARRATIVES -- EARLY CONTACTS IN FICTIONAL AFRICA -- BUT A GLIMPSE IN THE REAR VIEWMIRROR: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE NATIVE IN GRAHAM GREENE’S THE HEART OF THE MATTER -- ARRIVALS ON A BICYCLE: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE COLONIST IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART -- MEETING IN THE DESERT: MIRAGES OF LITERATE AND NON-LITERATE BARBARITIES IN J.M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS -- LATER CONTACTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND NORTH AMERICA -- ISLANDS OF PRELITERATE ORALITY: LOUISE ERDRICH’S LOVE MEDICINE AND PATRICIA GRACE’S POTIKI -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHIN: ESTABLISHED FORMS OF NON-LITERACY IN LITERATE CULTURES -- ILLITERACY FORGED BY THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM -- THE OUTCASTE’S LONGING TO LEARN: MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE -- LEARNING TO BELONG TO THE OUTCASTES: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -- BLACK ILLITERACY FORGED BY SLAVERY AND RACISM -- THE LURE OF WHITE LITERACY: RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY -- RESISTINGWHITE LITERACY: TONIMORRISON’S BELOVED -- FORGING A BLACK LITERACY: SAPPHIRE’S PUSH AND ERNEST J. GAINES’ ALESSON BEFORE DYING -- THE ILLITERATE RETURNED: ILLITERACY IN MIGRANT LITERATURE -- THE ILLITERATEMOTHER: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR -- THE ILLITERATE DAUGHTER: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN -- GENERATIONS OF ILLITERACY: AMY TAN’S THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER -- CLOSING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX -- INDEX. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452066103321 |
Ramsey-Kurz Helga | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The non-literate other [[electronic resource] ] : readings of illiteracy in twentieth-century novels in English / / Helga Ramsey-Kurz |
Autore | Ramsey-Kurz Helga |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (517 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.91409 |
Collana | Costerus |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literacy |
ISBN |
94-012-0471-3
1-4356-0078-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLITERACY AS A THEORETICAL ANATHEMA -- IN THE HUMANITIES: TABOOED -- IN LITERARY STUDIES: IGNORED -- ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME -- ILLITERACY IN EARLIER FICTION -- ILLITERACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION: HEART OF DARKNESS -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHOUT: UNLETTERED CALIBANS IN DISTANT EUROPE -- UNEARTHING THE PRE-LITERATEMIND: WILLIAM GOLDING’S THE INHERITORS -- PROJECTIONS OF A POST-LITERATEMIND: ANGELA CARTER’S HEROES AND VILLAINS -- POSTCOLONIAL RETURNS TO A PRE-LITERATE EUROPE: DAVID MALOUF’S AN IMAGINARY LIFE AND GILLIAN BOURAS’ APHRODITE AND THE OTHERS -- THE NON-LITERATE IN SIGHT: THE UNLETTERED NATIVE IN CONTACT NARRATIVES -- EARLY CONTACTS IN FICTIONAL AFRICA -- BUT A GLIMPSE IN THE REAR VIEWMIRROR: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE NATIVE IN GRAHAM GREENE’S THE HEART OF THE MATTER -- ARRIVALS ON A BICYCLE: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE COLONIST IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART -- MEETING IN THE DESERT: MIRAGES OF LITERATE AND NON-LITERATE BARBARITIES IN J.M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS -- LATER CONTACTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND NORTH AMERICA -- ISLANDS OF PRELITERATE ORALITY: LOUISE ERDRICH’S LOVE MEDICINE AND PATRICIA GRACE’S POTIKI -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHIN: ESTABLISHED FORMS OF NON-LITERACY IN LITERATE CULTURES -- ILLITERACY FORGED BY THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM -- THE OUTCASTE’S LONGING TO LEARN: MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE -- LEARNING TO BELONG TO THE OUTCASTES: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -- BLACK ILLITERACY FORGED BY SLAVERY AND RACISM -- THE LURE OF WHITE LITERACY: RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY -- RESISTINGWHITE LITERACY: TONIMORRISON’S BELOVED -- FORGING A BLACK LITERACY: SAPPHIRE’S PUSH AND ERNEST J. GAINES’ ALESSON BEFORE DYING -- THE ILLITERATE RETURNED: ILLITERACY IN MIGRANT LITERATURE -- THE ILLITERATEMOTHER: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR -- THE ILLITERATE DAUGHTER: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN -- GENERATIONS OF ILLITERACY: AMY TAN’S THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER -- CLOSING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX -- INDEX. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778286103321 |
Ramsey-Kurz Helga | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The non-literate other [[electronic resource] ] : readings of illiteracy in twentieth-century novels in English / / Helga Ramsey-Kurz |
Autore | Ramsey-Kurz Helga |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (517 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.91409 |
Collana | Costerus |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literacy |
ISBN |
94-012-0471-3
1-4356-0078-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- ILLITERACY AS A THEORETICAL ANATHEMA -- IN THE HUMANITIES: TABOOED -- IN LITERARY STUDIES: IGNORED -- ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME -- ILLITERACY IN EARLIER FICTION -- ILLITERACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION: HEART OF DARKNESS -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHOUT: UNLETTERED CALIBANS IN DISTANT EUROPE -- UNEARTHING THE PRE-LITERATEMIND: WILLIAM GOLDING’S THE INHERITORS -- PROJECTIONS OF A POST-LITERATEMIND: ANGELA CARTER’S HEROES AND VILLAINS -- POSTCOLONIAL RETURNS TO A PRE-LITERATE EUROPE: DAVID MALOUF’S AN IMAGINARY LIFE AND GILLIAN BOURAS’ APHRODITE AND THE OTHERS -- THE NON-LITERATE IN SIGHT: THE UNLETTERED NATIVE IN CONTACT NARRATIVES -- EARLY CONTACTS IN FICTIONAL AFRICA -- BUT A GLIMPSE IN THE REAR VIEWMIRROR: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE NATIVE IN GRAHAM GREENE’S THE HEART OF THE MATTER -- ARRIVALS ON A BICYCLE: THE UNINTELLIGIBLE COLONIST IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART -- MEETING IN THE DESERT: MIRAGES OF LITERATE AND NON-LITERATE BARBARITIES IN J.M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS -- LATER CONTACTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND NORTH AMERICA -- ISLANDS OF PRELITERATE ORALITY: LOUISE ERDRICH’S LOVE MEDICINE AND PATRICIA GRACE’S POTIKI -- THE NON-LITERATEWITHIN: ESTABLISHED FORMS OF NON-LITERACY IN LITERATE CULTURES -- ILLITERACY FORGED BY THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM -- THE OUTCASTE’S LONGING TO LEARN: MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE -- LEARNING TO BELONG TO THE OUTCASTES: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -- BLACK ILLITERACY FORGED BY SLAVERY AND RACISM -- THE LURE OF WHITE LITERACY: RICHARD WRIGHT’S BLACK BOY -- RESISTINGWHITE LITERACY: TONIMORRISON’S BELOVED -- FORGING A BLACK LITERACY: SAPPHIRE’S PUSH AND ERNEST J. GAINES’ ALESSON BEFORE DYING -- THE ILLITERATE RETURNED: ILLITERACY IN MIGRANT LITERATURE -- THE ILLITERATEMOTHER: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S THE WOMAN WARRIOR -- THE ILLITERATE DAUGHTER: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN -- GENERATIONS OF ILLITERACY: AMY TAN’S THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER -- CLOSING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX -- INDEX. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809013603321 |
Ramsey-Kurz Helga | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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