The Ballistic Bard
Subtitle: Postcolonial Fictions
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Published: May 5, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780340539156
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Popular Culture - General; Semiotics & Theory; Colonies in literature; Intertextuality; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; European - French; Commonwealth countries; Commonwealth fiction (English); History and criticism; In literature; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: In her major new study of postcolonial fiction, Judie Newman demonstrates the subversive nature of that fiction, in its refusal to be contained within purely 'literary' bounds, or even within the bounds of discourse. In the postcolonial arena, Jane Eyre walks with the zombie of horror film, Shaw rubs shoulders with the heirs of Tarzan, killer apes roam the pages of Nadine Gordimer, and Imperial Gothic confronts the popular fascination with the serial killer.