num_pages: 205
description: Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms with much attention to primary texts and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad Kipling Melville Emily Bront Erna Brodber Jean Rhys and others it offers new perspectives on Otherness difference and identity re-examines the role of emotions in literature and suggests productive ways of engaging with contemporary global and postcolonial issues.
language: English
title: The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan