{"product_id":"telling-it-slant-chloe-buckley-9781845197902","title":"Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi","description":"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\u003cbr\u003ewithin and about the fo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chloe Buckley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845197909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845197902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChloe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chloe Buckley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125460496639,"sku":"9781845197902","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8b3b176-ea4b-492a-94fb-114a67e95fbb.jpg?v=1687442753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telling-it-slant-chloe-buckley-9781845197902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}