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Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Elleke Boehmer

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature By Elleke Boehmer

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Elleke Boehmer


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A critical, chronological overview of colonial and postcolonial writing in English from 1770 to the present day. Focused upon a number of thematic developments and terms in postcolonial critical theory, the text attempts to convey a sense of the vivid diversity of postcolonial literature.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Summary

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors by Elleke Boehmer

Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee - postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. In this book, Elleke Boehmer looks challengingly at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing in the Empire in the Victorian period. Throughout this literature key themes and images - journeying, loss, the search for community, the arrival of the stranger - are expanded and redefined. Boehmer discusses these with reference to a broad range of texts, from Trollope, Kipling, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield, to authors as recent as Ben Okri and Michael Ondaatje, and the Aboriginal Australians Sally Morgan and Mudrooroo.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Reviews

"Boehmer's book is without any doubt a precious contribution. It provides a refreshingly readable, current, and knowledgeable account of the issues as the author displays an excellent grasp of the complexities of the subject."--Research in African Literatures
"A lucidly written introduction to an important new field of literary studies."--Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College
"Boehmer presents a comprehensive, lucid, and nuanced account of both the literature of the British empire and the literature in opposition to empire....Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is as accessible to the newcomer to the field as it is useful to the specialist."--Wold Literature Today


"Boehmer's book is without any doubt a precious contribution. It provides a refreshingly readable, current, and knowledgeable account of the issues as the author displays an excellent grasp of the complexities of the subject."--Research in African Literatures
"A lucidly written introduction to an important new field of literary studies."--Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College
"Boehmer presents a comprehensive, lucid, and nuanced account of both the literature of the British empire and the literature in opposition to empire....Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is as accessible to the newcomer to the field as it is useful to the specialist."--Wold Literature Today

"Boehmer's book is without any doubt a precious contribution. It provides a refreshingly readable, current, and knowledgeable account of the issues as the author displays an excellent grasp of the complexities of the subject."--Research in African Literatures
"A lucidly written introduction to an important new field of literary studies."--Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College
"Boehmer presents a comprehensive, lucid, and nuanced account of both the literature of the British empire and the literature in opposition to empire....Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is as accessible to the newcomer to the field as it is useful to the specialist."--Wold Literature Today


"Boehmer's book is without any doubt a precious contribution. It provides a refreshingly readable, current, and knowledgeable account of the issues as the author displays an excellent grasp of the complexities of the subject."--Research in African Literatures


"A lucidly written introduction to an important new field of literary studies."--Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College


"Boehmer presents a comprehensive, lucid, and nuanced account of both the literature of the British empire and the literature in opposition to empire....Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is as accessible to the newcomer to the field as it is useful to the specialist."--Wold Literature Today


About Elleke Boehmer


Elleke Boehmer is a lecturer in the School of English at Leeds University. She has written widely on postcolonial literature, and is an accomplished novelist who has published with Bloomsbury and Penguin.

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GOR001753505
9780192892324
0192892320
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors by Elleke Boehmer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1995-05-18
314
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