The postcolonial historical novel realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts / Hamish Dalley, Assistant Professor of World Literature, Daemen College, Amherst, New Jersey.
| Author/creator | Dalley, Hamish, 1984- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description | x, 226 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism -- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel -- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river -- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife -- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea -- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night -- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish -- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014022063 |
| ISBN | 9781137450081 (hardcover) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |