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Colonial and postcolonial literature

Paperback • 1995 • English

Colonial and postcolonial literature: migrant metaphors

By Boehmer, Elleke

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About the book

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 refe...Show more

Literary studies: postcolonial literature

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9780192892324

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

Colonial and postcolonial literature

Format

Paperback

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