Paradise discourse, imperialism, and globalization
Subtitle: exploiting Eden
By: by Sharae Deckard.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- v. 25
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415997393; 9780203865170
Subjects: Paradise in literature; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; Literature and globalization; Mexico -- In literature; Africa, East -- In literature; Sri Lanka -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gold-land of "wild surmise": Mexico, colonialism, and informal imperialism; title: Perverse paradiso: Malcolm Lowry and the writing of modern Mexico; title: Dark paradise, lost ophir: colonial imaginaries of East Africa; title: Paradise rejected: Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Swahili world; title: Taprobane, Serendib, Adam's peak: Ceylon as "paradise of Dharma"; title: "Make your own Eden": violence, myth and ecology in Romesh Gunesekera.