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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... possibility of identifying some commonalities in the counter- discursive practice of the various texts to be considered . Along the way , I became less confident still about the possibility of sustaining broad general conclusions . This ...
... possibility of identifying some commonalities in the counter- discursive practice of the various texts to be considered . Along the way , I became less confident still about the possibility of sustaining broad general conclusions . This ...
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... possibility of making paradigm issue into story , with possible interpretations including the view that it is a feminist novel , 45 that the male quest still bulks largest or that the juxtaposition predicates the possibility of some ...
... possibility of making paradigm issue into story , with possible interpretations including the view that it is a feminist novel , 45 that the male quest still bulks largest or that the juxtaposition predicates the possibility of some ...
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... possibility involves removing oneself from colonial ( or postcolonial ) definition . The drum revives the possibility of African memory and , as Jane Wilkinson has pointed out , postcolonial refashionings of The Tempest have not only ...
... possibility involves removing oneself from colonial ( or postcolonial ) definition . The drum revives the possibility of African memory and , as Jane Wilkinson has pointed out , postcolonial refashionings of The Tempest have not only ...
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exiled Fridays | 53 |
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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