Colonial And Postcolonial Discourse In The Novels Of Yŏm Sang Sŏp Chinua Achebe And Salman Rushdie

Author : Sun-sik Kim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820431125

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Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Yŏm Sang-sŏp, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie by Sun-sik Kim Pdf

This book discusses the psychological topography of Korean, Nigerian, and Indian people by exploring the counter-colonial discourse through the study of works by three writers - Yom Sang-Sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie - counter-colonial discourse in the works of these three writers strikes back at powerful colonial discourses, Soonsik Kim successfully brings out the Third World «voice» against the colonial legacy of the West and gives readers a taste of being «the Other». This book marks a significant transition in the critical attention of Third World discourse from mere projection to subjective viewpoint.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2018315082

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Postcolonial Theory of Interdependence and Reflections in the Novels of Chinua Achebe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Collits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134253234

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Postcolonial Conrad by Terry Collits Pdf

Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship. The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies. Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of criticism, Postcolonial Conrad not only presents fresh readings of his novels of imperialism, but also maps and analyzes the interpretative tradition they have generated. Terry Collits first examines the reception of the author’s work in terms of the history of ideas, literary criticism, traditions of ‘Englishness’, Marxism and post-colonialism, before re-reading Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo and Victory in greater depth. Collits’ incisive and wide-ranging volume provides a much needed reconsideration of more than a century of criticism, discussing the many different perspectives born of constantly shifting contexts. Most importantly though, the book encourages and equips us for twenty-first criticism, where we must ask anew how we might read and understand these crucial and fascinating novels.

Author : Khaoula Chakour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 366875599X

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The Problematic of the Kaleidoscopic Postcolonial Discourse by Khaoula Chakour Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial Literature is generally concerned with the demystification of the repercussions of colonialism with regard to individuals, societies and cultures. Indeed, all of these culminate in the psychological implications colonialism has on colonial subjects. Besides, there has recently been a proliferating trend to evaluate the postcloniality of literary works in terms of their consistency vis-à-vis feminist and ecocritical issues as inextricably integral components of the postcolonial discourse. In this regard, this paper is concerned with assessing the degree of postcoloniality in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain, and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by perusing their approaches to the colonial psychological traumas, their representation of women within postcolonial systems of patriarchy and their rendering of nature as a "colonial subject." This will be conducted through a meticulous analysis of the main protagonists' thought and behaviour patterns.

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen
Publisher : Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032248539

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Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen Pdf

This book on post-colonial theory has a wide geographic range and a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the book is a critique of the very idea of the 'postcolonial' itself.

Author : Richard Lane
Publisher : Polity
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064749941

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The Postcolonial Novel by Richard Lane Pdf

Richard Lane explores the themes surrounding the postcolonial novel written in English.

Author : Niti Sampat Patel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136537158

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Postcolonial Masquerades by Niti Sampat Patel Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335196

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Postcolonial Justice by Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann Pdf

Postcolonial Justice addresses a crucial issue in current postcolonial theory: the question of how to reconcile an ethics of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice.

Author : Silvia Gert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656596707

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"Heart of Darkness" and the ambivalence of imperialism by Silvia Gert Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Englische Philologie), language: English, abstract: Set at the turn of the last century and consequently at the peak of imperialism, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, published in 1899, is to this day still one of the most critically and controversially treated works about English colonial history in Africa. The research concerning this novella has been carried out in many directions; it has been compared to Dante’s Inferno (Goonetilleke 2007, 12) and is said to have anticipated Freudian ideas of psychoanalysis (ibid. 14), it is discussed whether its main intention is to portray an image of Africa (as envisioned in Europe), the decay of European imperialism or - on a more individual level - the development and inner conflict of a subject, namely Marlow, the latter leading to the novella even being viewed as a Bildungsroman (Cahir 2004, 183). A further point of inquiry deals with the portrayal of Africa and Africans in Conrad’s work; here, Chinua Achebe’s essay has been of particular interest as he, firstly and most prominently, questions the legitimacy of Heart of Darkness being part of the literary canon and accuses Conrad of being a xenophobe (1988, 269) and a “thoroughgoing racist“ (ibid. 267). To him the novella is “offensive and deplorable“ and not worthy of being titled one of the greatest works in the English language (ibid. 268). While Achebe’s ideas have also met criticism, through their provocative nature they have nevertheless forced readers to address the issue of racism and imperialism in Heart of Darkness critically.

Author : Lucienne Loh,Malcolm Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Postcolonialism in literature
ISBN : 1138306290

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Postcolonial Literature and Challenges for the New Millennium by Lucienne Loh,Malcolm Sen Pdf

This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21stcentury: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoretical underpinnings and political motivations of postcolonial studies in the new millennium. Colonial legacies, especially in terms of structuring exploitative capitalist relations between countries and regions are shown to persist in postcolonial nations in the form of 'global civil wars' and systemic environmental waste. Chinese authoritarianism and the Indian picturesque represent less familiar forms of neo-colonialism. These essays not only engage with established writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai; they also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice. ey also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Author : International Comparative Literature Association. Congress,Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Colonies in literature
ISBN : 904200410X

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Colonizer and Colonized by International Comparative Literature Association. Congress,Theo d'. Haen Pdf

Over the last two decades, the experiences of colonization and decolonization, once safely relegated to the margins of what occupied students of history and literature, have shifted into the latter's center of attention, in the West as elsewhere. This attention does not restrict itself to the historical dimension of colonization and decolonization, but also focuses upon their impact upon the present, for both colonizers and colonized. The nearly fifty essays here gathered examine how literature, now and in the past, keeps and has kept alive the experiences - both individual and collective - of colonization and decolonization. The contributors to this volume hail from the four corners of the earth, East and West, North and South. The authors discussed range from international luminaries past and present such as Aphra Behn, Racine, Blaise Cendrars, Salman Rushdie, Graham Greene, Derek Walcott, Guimarães Rosa, J.M. Coetzee, André Brink, and Assia Djebar, to less known but certainly not lesser authors like Gioconda Belli, René Depestre, Amadou Koné, Elisa Chimenti, Sapho, Arthur Nortje, Es'kia Mphahlele, Mark Behr, Viktor Paskov, Evelyn Wilwert, and Leïla Houari. Issues addressed include the role of travel writing in forging images of foreign lands for domestic consumption, the reception and translation of Western classics in the East, the impact of contemporary Chinese cinema upon both native and Western audiences, and the use of Western generic novel conventions in modern Egyptian literature.

Author : Niaz Zaman,Shaukat Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : OCLC:222798555

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Colonial and Post Colonial Encounters by Niaz Zaman,Shaukat Hussain Pdf

Author : Leslie Barnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803266773

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Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature by Leslie Barnes Pdf

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

Author : Andrew Hock-soon Ng
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039110063

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Interrogating Interstices by Andrew Hock-soon Ng Pdf

This study attempts to multiculturalise the Gothic by reading a wide selection of Postcolonial Asian and Asian American narratives in light of familiar Gothic tropes such as the uncanny, the double, spectres, and the sublime. Discussing some of the more important concepts in postcolonialism such as subjectivity, belonging, hybridity and nationalism, the author argues that the trajectory of the postcolonial and diasporic experience is fraught with profound moments of trauma, loss and transgression which the aesthetics of the Gothic can illuminate. Throughout the study, a careful balance is maintained between deploying Gothic criticism and emphasising the narrative's cultural, historical and ideological specificity to ensure that a textual form of colonial imposition does not occur. Writings by well-known authors such as Rushdie, Roy, Ondaatje and Mukherjee, and lesser known ones such as Lan Samantha Chang, K.S, Maniam and Beth Yahp are analysed.

Author : Sang-sŏp Yŏm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060830273

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Three Generations by Sang-sŏp Yŏm Pdf

Illuminates the tensions of the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul.