Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the CanonBloomsbury Academic, 2001 - 200 sidor 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. |
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... action , but more generally an absentee Caribbean plantation owner ( James , S. 41 ) - who is busy sorting out another form of deviant action . At the same time , the situation of the heroine , Fanny Price , the poor relative within the ...
... action , but more generally an absentee Caribbean plantation owner ( James , S. 41 ) - who is busy sorting out another form of deviant action . At the same time , the situation of the heroine , Fanny Price , the poor relative within the ...
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... action ' ? Is failure to make a decision a moral action or not ? ( Duerden and Pieterse 124 ) 12 The parallels with his own situation are fairly obvious . As a writer who first began to learn English when he was about twelve , he has ...
... action ' ? Is failure to make a decision a moral action or not ? ( Duerden and Pieterse 124 ) 12 The parallels with his own situation are fairly obvious . As a writer who first began to learn English when he was about twelve , he has ...
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... action and her own 1972 narrative offer the possibility of an ' escape from paternalism on models of influence ' ( Neuman in Neuman and Wilson 21 ) . The relationship between the two narratives is never clearly fixed , but Anna's later ...
... action and her own 1972 narrative offer the possibility of an ' escape from paternalism on models of influence ' ( Neuman in Neuman and Wilson 21 ) . The relationship between the two narratives is never clearly fixed , but Anna's later ...
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Heart of Darkness and postcolonial | 15 |
exiled Fridays | 53 |
Caribbean and Canadian | 72 |
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Achebe African Amerindian appears Arrow of God aspects Australian Badlands becomes binary Brontë Brontëan Caliban Canadian Caribbean central characters colonial Conrad constructed contemporary counter-discursive cultural Defoe's Derek Dickens Dickens's discourse Emily Brontë Emily Brontë's England English canon European exile father fiction figure Friday gender Gothic Harlem Duet Harris Heart of Darkness identity imperialism Indian intertexts island Jack Maggs Jane Eyre journey Kroetsch's Kurtz Lamming Lamming's literary locate London Magwitch male Marlow Miranda mode Moses Naipaul narrative narrator nineteenth-century novel novelist obvious offers Othello parallels particularly Peacock play poem possibility postcolonial con-texts postcolonial texts postcolonial writers pre-text Prospero protagonist quest racial readers reading references relationship represents response Rhys Rhys's Robinson Crusoe role romantic seems Shakespeare's social society stereotyping story suggests Teeton tell Tempest text's Tobias Tobias's V. S. Naipaul Ventriloquist's Tale Walcott Water with Berries Wide Sargasso Sea writing back Wuthering Heights