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This book is the successful outcome of a difficult feat--it represents an interesting new approach to a well-trodden field of study. In this collection of essays, the author revisits certain issues within the distinctive frames of each essay. Of particular interest is the way the author is continually mindful of how postcolonial studies might be reconceptualised--an approach that many critics of note have taken in recent years, especially Neil Lazarus, Reed Dasenbrock, and Bart Moore-Gilbert, in different ways. This author's way is, in part, to reconsider "postcolonial literary history...against ideas of History as a dominant epistemology." Another refreshing take here too is the way in which the theoretical positions are meaningfully explored in the context of imaginative literary texts; the book brings together the best scholarly qualities of close reading and a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of theory and the history that cloaks everything. This book is a very significant contribution to postcolonial studies and advances the ever more richly complicated discourse that has emerged in the field.

English fiction --- Anglo-Indian fiction --- English literature --- British --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Littérature anglophone --- Littérature anglaise --- Inde --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature anglo-indienne --- Anglais --- History and criticism. --- Indic influences. --- Intellectual life. --- 20e siècle --- Influence indienne --- Dans la littérature --- India --- In literature. --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle --- Littérature anglophone --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature anglo-indienne --- 20e siècle --- Dans la littérature

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Nationalism --- Transnationalism. --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations

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This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction , children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific postcolonial history of the novel.

English fiction --- Australian fiction --- Canadian fiction --- New Zealand fiction --- History and criticism --- Pacific Island fiction (English) --- Australian fiction. --- Canadian fiction. --- New Zealand fiction. --- History and criticism. --- Roman anglais --- Roman anglophone --- Roman canadien de langue anglaise --- Roman néo-zélandais --- New Zealand literature --- English literature

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In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau'ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These 'makers' include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces.

Cultural geography --- Pacific Island fiction (English) --- History and criticism. --- Sharrad, Paul. --- Oceania --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization.