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Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire
Jane Stafford
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Description for Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire
Hardback. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 2. Weight in Grams: 482.
This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or `native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, ... Read more
This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or `native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319387666
SKU
V9783319387666
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99-15
About Jane Stafford
Jane Stafford is Professor in the English Programme of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the co-author of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914 (2006), the co-editor of The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012), and the co-editor of volume 9 of The Oxford History of the Novel, The World Novel to 1950 (2016).
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