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the politics of genre

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An edition of Empire and the Gothic (2003)

Empire and the Gothic

the politics of genre

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This volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of post-colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for post-colonial ends.

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Palgrave Macmillan
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English
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248

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Subjects

Gothic revival (Literature), Decolonization in literature, Literary form, History and criticism, English Political fiction, Imperialism in literature, English Horror tales, Postcolonialism, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Horror tales, history and criticism, Political fiction, history and criticism

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Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre
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Table of Contents

Enlightenment Gothic and postcolonialism / Andrew Smith and William Hughes
Discovering Eastern horrors : Beckford, Maturin, and the discourse of travel literature / Massimiliano Demata
Charlotte Dacre's postcolonial moor / Kim Micasiw
Frankenstein and Devi's pterodactyl / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Pushkin and Odoevsky : the 'Afro-Finnish' theme in Russian Gothic / Neil Cornwell
A singular invasion : revisiting the postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula / William Hughes
Beyond coloniality : death and the body in H. Rider Haggard / Andrew Smith
Horror, circus, and orientalism / Helen Stoddart
Burning down the master's (prison)-house : revolution and revelation in colonial and postcolonial female Gothic / Carol Davison
Crossing boundaries : the revision of Gothic paradigms in Heat and dust / Mariaconcetta Costantini
The ghastly and the ghostly : the Gothic farce of Farrell's Empire trilogy / Victor Sage
Arundhati Roy and the house of history / David Punter
The number of magic alternatives : Salman Rushdie's 1001 Gothic nights / Andrew Teverson
Coetzee and the animals : the quest for postcolonial grace / Dominic Head.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

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823/.0872909
Library of Congress
PR830.T3 E536 2003, PN1-PN6790

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xiii, 248 p. ;
Number of pages
248

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OL3562604M
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0333984056
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2002029889
OCLC/WorldCat
50417352
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5243416
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