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Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work.The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje's career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing wh

Ondaatje, Michael, --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic --- India --- Billy the Kid. --- Coming Through Slaughter. --- English Patient. --- Michael Ondaatje. --- Skin of Lion. --- intertexts. --- poet. --- poetics of postmodernism. --- postcolonial literature. --- postcolonial theory.

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Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary British writers Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to understand the racial anxieties of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain. This book examines the ways in which their literary explorations of slavery may shed light on current issues in Britain today, or what might be thought of as the continuing legacies of the UK’s largely forgotten slave past. In this highly original study, Abigail Ward looks at a range of novels, poetry and non-fictional works by Phillips, Dabydeen and D’Aguiar in order to consider their creative responses to slavery. This is the first study to focus exclusively on contemporary British literary representations of slavery, and thoughtfully engages with such notions as the history, memory and trauma of slavery and the ethics of writing about this past. Written for students, academics and the general reader interested in contemporary British or Caribbean writing, this authoritative work offers a clear, accessible and interesting guide to the ways in which the transatlantic slave trade is represented in recent postcolonial literature.

Phillips, Caryl --- Dabydeen, David --- D'Aguiar, Fred, --- Aguiar, Fred d', --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Slavery in literature. --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Ireland --- Phillips, Caryl (1958-....) --- Dabydeen, David (1955-....) --- D'Aguiar, Fred (1960-....) --- Esclavage --- Littérature anglaise --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Britain. --- Caryl Phillips. --- David Dabydeen. --- Fred D'Aguiar. --- ethics of writing. --- memory. --- postcolonial literature. --- slavery. --- transatlantic slave trade. --- trauma.

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Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism. This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective. Instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter. Focusing on the case of Senegal, Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof. Drawing on extensive archival research and an under-studied corpus of novels, poetry, and films in both languages, as well as educational projects and popular periodicals, the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development. Warner reads the francophone works of well-known authors such as Léopold Senghor, Ousmane Sembène, Mariama Bâ, and Boubacar Boris Diop alongside the more overlooked Wolof-language works with which they are in dialogue.Refusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism, The Tongue-Tied Imagination argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself. Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions: first, they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature; but second, they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise. Drawing on these insights, Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Senegalese literature --- Senegalese literature (French) --- French literature --- History and criticism. --- Senegal --- Dēmokratia tēs Senegalēs --- Gouvernement de la République du Sénégal --- Gouvernement du Sénégal --- Gweriniaeth Sénégal --- Réewum Senegaal --- Republic of Senegal --- Republica de Senegal --- República del Senegal --- Rèpublica du Sènègal --- Republiek van Senegal --- Republik Senegal --- Republika Senegal --- République du Sénégal --- Rėspublika Senehal --- Saaxle Senegaal --- Senegalē --- Senegali Vabariik --- Senegalská republika --- Senegaru --- Senehal --- Seneqal --- Seneqal Respublikası --- Sinighāl --- Territoire du Sénégal --- Σενεγαλη --- Δημοκρατια της Σενεγαλης --- Рэспубліка Сенегал --- Сенегал --- سنغال --- セネガル --- French Sudan --- Mali --- Mali Federation --- Sudanese Republic --- Languages --- Political aspects. --- Colonialism. --- Comparative Literature. --- Decolonization. --- Francophone Literature. --- Language Question. --- Postcolonial Literature. --- Senegal. --- Translation. --- Wolof Literature. --- World Literature.

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Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a pluralistic and inclusive space, often at odds with the narrow nationalist vision of postcolonial identity. Yet when authors wrote about the school, they also had to consider whether their work would be taught in schools. As this book's original research on the teaching of literature shows, Moroccan and Algerian schools have largely failed to promote the works of local authors in public school curricula. This situation has dramatically altered literary portraits of education: novels marginalized in the public education system must creatively reimagine what pedagogy looks like and where it can take place. In illuminating a literary corpus neglected by political scientists and sociologists, Contesting the Classroom shows that novels about the school are an important source of counter-narrative about education and national identity. At the same time, by demonstrating how education has influenced writing styles, this work reframes the classroom as a necessary cultural context for scholars of postcolonial literature.

Moroccan fiction (French) --- Algerian fiction (French) --- Moroccan fiction (Arabic) --- Algerian fiction (Arabic) --- Education in literature. --- Schools in literature --- French fiction --- Moroccan literature (French) --- Algerian literature (French) --- History and criticism. --- 1900-2099 --- Morocco. --- Algeria. --- 1958-1962 --- al-Dzāyīr --- al-Jazāʼir --- Algérie --- Algerien --- Algeriet --- Alg'eryah --- Algieria --- Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Alg'iryah --- Alzhir --- Alžir --- Argelia --- Cezayir --- Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria --- Democratic Republic of Algeria --- Dżumhurija al-Dżazajrija asz-Szaabija ad-Dimukratija --- Gouvernement général de l'Algérie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-Shaʻbīyah --- Jumhūrīyah al Jazāʼirīyah ash Shaʻbīyah --- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria --- République algérienne démocratique et populaire --- Empire chérifien --- Kingdom of Morocco --- Kingdom of Morrocco --- Maghrib --- Mamlaka al-Maghrebia --- Mamlakah al-Maghribīyah --- Maroc --- Marocko --- Marokko --- Maroko --- Marrakesh (Kingdom) --- Marrocos --- Marruecos --- Marruecos Francés --- Morokko --- Morokko Ōkoku --- Morrocco --- Royaume du Maroc --- Morocco --- Arabization --- Education --- Decolonizing the classroom --- Postcolonial Literature --- Pedagogy --- Algeria