Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon
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Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon
（Literature, culture, and identity）
Continuum, 2001
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LCCN:2001028180
Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-195) and index
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ISBN 9780826454652
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This is an overview of responses to literary texts overtly associated with the colonial project or the construction of "race" (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello), as well as to texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is less obvious (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The postcolonial con-texts are located within their social and cultural backgrounds, and the different forms their responses take to their pre-texts are explored. Thieme argues that "writing back" is seldom adversarial. Rather, it operates along a continuum between complicity and oppositionality. He also suggests that post-colonial appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate re-readings of their "originals". The book concludes by considering the implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics and literary genealogies more generally.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - parents, bastards and orphans
- Conrad's hopeless binaries - "Heart of Darkness" and post-colonial interior journeys
- "On England's Desert Island Cast Away" - protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays
- reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts - Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes
- turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"
- encountering other selves - re-staging "The Tempest"
- removing the black-face - a different "Othello" music
- conclusion - narrative agency in Pauline Melville's "The Ventriloquist's Tale".
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: pbk ISBN 9780826454669
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In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial writing and the 'canon'. Thieme's study provides a broad overview of such writing, focusing both on responses to texts that have frequently been associated with the colonial project or the construction of 'race' (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello) and texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is slightly less overt (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The post-colonial con-texts examined are located within their particular social and cultural backgrounds with emphasis on the different forms their responses to their pre-texts take and the extent to which they create their own discursive space. Using Edward Said's models of filiative relationships and affiliative identifications, the book argues that 'writing back' is seldom adversarial, rather that it operates along a continuum between complicity and oppositionality that dismantles hierarchical positioning.
It also suggests that post-colonial appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate re-readings of their 'originals'. It concludes by considering the implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics and literary genealogies more generally. Authors examined include Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Kamau Brathwaite, Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee, Robertson Davies, Wilson Harris, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert Kroetsch, George Lamming, Margaret Laurence, Pauline Melville, V.S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Djanet Sears, Sam Selvon, Olive Senior, Jane Urquhart and Derek Walcott.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - parents, bastards and orphans
- Conrad's hopeless binaries - "Heart of Darkness" and post-colonial interior journeys
- "On England's Desert Island Cast Away" - protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays
- reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts - Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes
- turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"
- encountering other selves - re-staging "The Tempest"
- removing the black-face - a different "Othello" music
- conclusion - narrative agency in Pauline Melville's "The Ventriloquist's Tale".
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