Title: Colonial and postcolonial literature
Subtitle: migrant metaphors
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, English literature, Commonwealth literature (English), Intellectual life, Emigration and immigration in literature, Colonies in literature, Imperialism in literature, Colonies, Postcolonialism in literature, Culture conflict in literature, Postcolonialism, Immigrants in literature, English literature, history and criticism, Great britain, colonies, Decolonization in literature
Places: Great Britain, Commonwealth countries, Developing countries