Recasting the world: writing after colonialism/

Other Authors: White, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction / Jonathan White
  • 1. Educating the Savages: Melville,Bloom, and the Rhetoric of Imperialist Instruction / Jerry Phillips
  • 2. 'Four Hundred Years of Silence': Myth, History, and Motherhood inToni Morrison's Beloved / Sally Keenan
  • 3. V. S. Naipaul and thePostcolonial Order: Reading In a Free State / Dennis Walder
  • 4. TheProfit of Language: George Lamming and the Postcolonial Novel / PeterHulme
  • 5. 'Unsystematic Fingers at the Conditions of the Times':'Afropop' and the Paradoxes of Imperialism / Neil Lazarus
  • 6. LateLandings: Reflections on Belatedness in Australian and CanadianLiteratures / Carolyn Masel
  • 7. Prisoners and Spiders Surrounded bySigns: Postmodernism and the Postcolonial Gaze in ContemporaryAustralian Culture / Patrick Fuery
  • 8. Politics and the Individual inthe Modernist Historical Novel: Gordimer and Rushdie / Jonathan White
  • 9. Reading Travel Writing / Jim Philip.