Paradise discourse, imperialism, and globalization
Subtitle: exploiting Eden
By: Sharae Deckard
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 25; Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 25.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415997393
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) 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.