Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies EPUB
by Graham MacPhee
Part of the Postcolonial Literary Studies series
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Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism.
He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S.
Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as 'British national literature', 'new ethnicities', 'migrancy' and 'hybridity'* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood, Tony Harrison's V, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and Ian McEwan's Saturday
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- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:08/06/2011
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- ISBN:9780748688661
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- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
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