Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by MacPhee, Graham

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780748639014)

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Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by MacPhee, Graham

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies

$29.95
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by MacPhee, Graham

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism. He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as 'British national literature', 'new ethnicities', 'migrancy' and 'hybridity'* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood, Tony Harrison's V, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and Ian McEwan's Saturday

Author: Graham MacPhee
ISBN-10: 0748639012
ISBN-13: 9780748639014
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2011
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.40d
By Graham MacPhee
By Graham MacPhee
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Graham MacPhee is Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University. He is the author of The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Continuum, 2nd edn, 2007) and co-editor, with Prem Poddar, of Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (Berghahn, 2007).

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