The ballistic bard : postcolonial fictions
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書誌事項
The ballistic bard : postcolonial fictions
Arnold, 1995
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全9件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780340539149
内容説明
In this study of postcolonial fiction, the author demonstrates the subversive nature of this fiction. She investigates the ways in which contemporary novelists from India, Africa and the Caribbean have explored colonial and postcolonial situations, particularly by revising classics from the past such as "Jane Eyre", "Robinson Crusoe" and "A Passage to India". The book examines this postcolonial fiction in relation to contemporary politics and popular culture. Writers considered include Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Bharati Mukherjee, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, Shashi Tharoor, Joan Riley, Hanif Kureishi and Sam Selvon.
目次
- The ballistic bard - intertexuality and postcolonial fiction
- I walked with a zombie - "Wide Sargasso Sea", Jean Rhys
- retrofitting the raj - "Heat and Dust", Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- babytalk - "Baumgartner's Bombay", Anita Desai
- postcolonial Gothic - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case
- empire as a dirty story - "Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe", J.M. Coetzee
- he neo-Tarzan, she Jane? - "The Rape of Shavi", Buchi Emecheta
- don't cry for me, Argentina - Jane Eyre as Evita Peron - "Guerrillas", V.S. Naipaul
- the mad woman in the hotel - "Jasmine" and "Jasmine", Bharati Mukherjee
- Nadine Gordimer and the naked ape - "Something Out There"
- conclusion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780340539156
内容説明
Postcolonial novelists frequently aim to revise the ideological messages created by European domination of their culture, and to undermine the central position of "Western Man". Rewritings of the fiction of influential predecessors are used to subvert conventional representations of colonization, and to restore the untold stories of the imperialized. Jean Rhys rewrites "Jane Eyre" in the West Indies, V.S. Naipaul reworks Bronte and Rhys; Bharati Mukherjee challenges Naipaul in Africa; J.M. Coetzee links Defoe with D.H. Lawrence; Buchi Emecheta reassesses Shaw; and Nadine Gordimer examines Shakespeare in Soweto. In India, Anita Desai historicizes Forster's cave; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala repoliticizes his humanist beliefs; and Upamanyu Chatterjee satirizes Jhabvala. In this study of postcolonial fiction, Judie Newman demonstrates the subversive nature of that fiction, in its refusal to be contained within purely literary bounds, or even within the bounds of discourse.
In the postcolonial arena, "Jane Eyre" walks with the "zombie" of horror film, Shaw rubs shoulders with the heirs of Tarzan, killer apes roam the pages of Nadine Gordimer, and Imperial Gothic confronts the popular fascination with the serial killer.
目次
- The ballistic bard - intertexuality and postcolonial fiction
- I walked with a zombie - "Wide Sargasso Sea", Jean Rhys
- retrofitting the raj - "Heat and Dust", Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- babytalk - "Baumgartner's Bombay", Anita Desai
- postcolonial Gothic - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case
- empire as a dirty story - "Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe", J.M. Coetzee
- he neo-Tarzan, she Jane? - "The Rape of Shavi", Buchi Emecheta
- don't cry for me, Argentina - Jane Eyre as Evita Peron - "Guerrillas", V.S. Naipaul
- the mad woman in the hotel - "Jasmine" and "Jasmine", Bharati Mukherjee
- Nadine Gordimer and the naked ape - "Something Out There"
- conclusion.
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