• The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere Табиш Хаир
    ISBN: 978-0230234062
    Год издания: 2009
    Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
    Язык: Английский

    Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Brontë, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on Otherness, difference and identity, re-examines…

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