Samenvatting
Much attention has focused on the imperial gaze at colonised peoples, cultures, and lands. But, during and after the British Empire, what have writers from those cultures made of England, the English, and issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity, and desire when they have travelled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? This question is addressed through studies of the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman , and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Emecheta, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie and Dabydeen.
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ISBN13:9781349408986
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mother Country' PART I: MAPPING SOME TERRITORY Colouring the English; S.Thomas A Literature of Belonging: Rewriting the Domestic Novel; A.Blake Learning Me Your Language: England in the Postcolonial Bildungsroman ; L.Gandhi PART II: AUTOHOR STUDIES Katherine Mansfield and the Rejection of England; A.Blake Looking from this Curious Limbo: Jean Rhys; S.Thomas A Very Backward Country: Christina Stead and the English Class System; A.Blake The London Observer: Doris Lessing; A.Blake Made in England: V.S.Naipaul and English Fiction(s); L.Gandhi Black Families in Buchi Emecheta's England(s); S.Thomas Ellowen, Deeowen: Salman Rushdie and the Migrant's Desire; L.Gandhi Liberating Contrasting Spaces: David Dabydeen; S.Thomas Works Cited Index