The writer in the academy: creative interfrictions
La 4e de couverture indique : "Postcolonial life narratives" draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, …
Nationalism and the postcolonial
by Dinter, Sandra, Marquardt, Johanna
fromCross/cultures (Amsterdam)
"Often thought of as a thing of the past, nationalism remains surprisingly resilient in the postcolonial era, especially since the concepts of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism have lost authority in recent years. The contributions assembled in Nationalism and the Postcolonia…
Classic detective/mystery genre, concerning the disappearce of a sizeable diamond that once adorned a rare Hindu idol and has since come to England.
Carrigan here examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states that are still grappling with the legacies of 'western' colonialism, he argues that postcolonial writers pr…
"Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction si…