The English book and its marginalia : : colonial/postcolonial literatures after Heart of darkness / / Asako Nakai.
This book is about books that recount the story of encountering another book. There are various versions of the story told and retold from the heyday of imperialism up to the present day (Homi Bhabha calls it the trope of 'the discovery of the English book'); by considering each of these v...
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| Superior document: | Studies in comparative literature ; Volume 36 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
Volume 36. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch.1 Introduction: The English Book
- Part I Speaking with Conrad
- Ch.2 Towards Heart of Darkness
- Ch.3 A Kurtz in Malaya
- Ch.4 After Heart of Darkness
- Part II Marginalia Deciphered
- Ch.5 Revising Africa: From Daventry to Mister Johnson
- Ch.6 Dinesen's Blank Pages
- Ch.7 The Return of Naipaul
- Ch.8 Luminous Darkness: Reading the Vietnam War, Reading the Japanese Novel
- Ch.9 Ngũgĩ's Unlearning of the English Book.