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The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland and Britain. Lyn Innes compares the ways in which authors shape communal identities and interrogate the values and representations of peoples in newly independent nations. Placing its emphasis on literary rather than theoretical texts, this book offers detailed discussion of many internationally renowned authors, including James Joyce, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Les Murray and Derek Walcott. It also includes historical surveys of the main countries discussed, a glossary, and biographical notes on major authors. Lyn Innes provides a rich and subtle guide to a vast array of authors and texts from a wide range of sites.

English literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Colonies in literature --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Postcolonialisme --- Colonies --- Dans la littérature

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Our primary notions of home, orientation and the very principle of our spatial existence are threatened by territorial controversies. 'Terror' thus becomes both the passive experience and the active instrument that characterize territorial threats and impositions. Such terrors are as old as the mythical loss of paradise, but their ancient implications have not blunted our present-day sensitivities nor limited the proliferating associations and connotations in our terror-ridden political present. Analysing and understanding the mechanisms at work in the creation and the experience of 'territorial terrors' is a complex task but it may serve peaceful purposes in the discursive turmoil of our globalising planet. In the present survey, a group of young scholars from the Universities of Tübingen and Maryland, in a transatlantic effort, approached the wide field of territorial terrors from diverse perspectives. They were guided by recent theories of space and place, and they weighed and utilized recent conceptual developments in cultural theory and postcolonial discourse. In their investigations, literature (and film) can take the role of a passionate but non-violent public and educational forum through which we may possibly understand and come to terms with contested spaces and their burning questions before they kindle new forms of terror.

English literature --- English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Colonies --- Postcolonialisme --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme --- Dans la littérature

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In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature.

Colonies in literature --- English literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Nationalism in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Irish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- India --- Ireland --- In literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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A new evaluation of New England's literature of dissent in works by early English settlers in America

American literature --- Economics and literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Economic aspects --- New England --- Northeastern States --- Civilization