The politics of home : postcolonial relocations and twentieth-century fiction
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The politics of home : postcolonial relocations and twentieth-century fiction
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- :hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-250) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Politics of Home draws attention to the multiple relocations that take place in literatures in English in the twentieth century by examining the changing representation of 'home' in such narratives. Through an exploration of imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that complex literary allegiances are visible in textual reformulations of 'home' and that George's concept of 'global English' challenges the very logic of literary landscapes organised in accordance with national boundaries. Reading Englishwomen's narration of their success in the empire against Conrad's account of colonial masculine failure, Frederic Jameson alongside R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai and other contemporary Indian writers with the British Romantic poets in mind, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamacia Kincaid, and Conrad through Naipual and Ishiguro, The Politics of Home explores the privilege and pain underlying 'feeling at home' in literature.
Table of Contents
- Prologue: All fiction is homesickness ...
- 1. Home-countries: narratives across disciplines
- 2. The authorative Englishwoman: setting up home and self in the colonies
- 3. The great English tradition: Joseph Conrad writes home
- 4. Nostalgic theorizing: at home in 'Third World' fictions
- 5. Elite plotting, domestic postcoloniality
- 6. Travelling light: home and the immigrant genre
- Epilogue: all homesickness is fiction.
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