Colonial and postcolonial literature
Subtitle: migrant metaphors
By: Elleke Boehmer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries; Culture conflict in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Intellectual life
Other titles: Colonial & postcolonial literature
Description: 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 reference to a broad range of texts, from Trollope, Kipling, Orwell, D. H. Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield, to authors as recent as Ben Okri and Michael Ondaatje, and the Aboriginal Australians Sally Morgan and Mudrooroo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
"An OPUS book"--Half t.p.