Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845197902)

This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This collection describes how Oyeyemi's work engages in an innovative way with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in which Oyeyemi is also a trouble-making feminist voice, employing feminist strategies to rewrite genres, parody literary forms, and critique the characterization of woman in literature. Finally it suggests that Oyeyemi's oeuvre marks a new direction in postcolonial studies as she writes
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Author: Chloe Buckley
ISBN-10: 1845197909
ISBN-13: 9781845197902
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

About the Author

Chloe Buckley is an Associate Lecturer and doctoral student at Lancaster University, specializing in postmillennial gothic fiction, children's literature and the child in gothic. Sarah Ilott is a Research Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Teesside University, UK. Her main research and teaching interests are in postcolonial literature and genre fiction, particularly comedy and the gothic.