Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature : : A Reader / / Peter Childs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Childs, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Colonial History, National Identity and 'English' Literature --; 1. William Shakespeare: The Tempest --; 2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe --; 3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre --; 4. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness --; 5. Rudyard Kipling: Kim --; 6. James Joyce: Ulysses --; 7. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India --; COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INDEX OF NAMES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474465700; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474465700
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Childs.

Unlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics include cannibalism, slavery, the harem, missionary work, gender, nationalism and the Rushdie affair. The book offers practical examples of applying theoretical arguments to specific texts.Key Features Provides three or four cutting edge essays on each of the following texts: Shakespeare's The Tempest; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Bronte's Jane Eyre; Kipling's Kim, Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Joyce's Ulysses; Forster's A Passage to India; Rushdie's The Satanic Verses