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28%OFFRosemary Marangoly George - The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction - 9780520220126 - V9780520220126
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The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction

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Description for The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction Paperback. Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home". Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home." She reads English women's narration of their success in the empire against Joseph Conrad's accounts of colonial masculine failure, R. K. Narayan alongside Frederic Jameson, contemporary Indian women writers as they recycle the rhetoric of the British Romantic poets, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamaica ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520220126
SKU
V9780520220126
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Ref
99-1

About Rosemary Marangoly George
Rosemary Marangoly George is Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, and the editor of Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (1998).

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