Empire and the Gothic : the politics of genre
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Empire and the Gothic : the politics of genre
Palgrave Macmillan, c2003
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.
Table of Contents
- Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
- Enlightenment Gothic and Postcolonialism
- A.Smith and W.Hughes Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin and the Discourse of Travel Literature
- M.Demata Charlotte Dacre's Postcolonial Moor
- K.Micashiw Frankenstein and Devi's Pterodactyl
- G.C.Spivak Pushkin and Odoevsky: The 'Afro-Finnish' Theme in Russian Gothic
- N.Cornwell A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcolonialism of Bram Stoker's Dracula
- W.Hughes Beyond Colonialism: Death and the Body in H.Rider Haggard
- A.Smith Horror, Circus and Orientalism
- H.Stoddart Burning Down the Master's (Prison)-House: Revolution and Revelation in Colonial and Postcolonial Female Fiction
- C.Davison Crossing Boundaries: The Revision of Gothic Paradigms in Heat and Dust
- M.Constantini The Ghastly and the Ghostly: The Gothic Farce of Farrell's Empire Trilogy
- V.Sage Arundhati Roy and the House of History
- D.Punter The Number of Magic Alternatives: Salman Rushdie's 1001 Gothic Nights
- A.Teverson Coetzee and the Animals: The Quest for Postcolonial Grace
- D.Head Endnotes Index
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