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Myth in literature --- Metaphor --- English literature --- Congresses. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors

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English literature --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Littérature du Commonwealth --- Histoire et critique

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"In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets - Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance." "Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality."--Jacket.

Poetry --- English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Commonwealth poetry (English) --- Poetry, Modern --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Exoticism in literature. --- Commonwealth of Nations poetry (English) --- English poetry --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Commonwealth of Nations authors

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Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- South Asian diaspora in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- South Asian authors --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- In literature.

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Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postcolonial studies today. The contributors come from three generations: the pioneers who introduced study of the new literatures into university English departments, the next generation who refined and developed many of the theoretical positions embodied in postcolonial study, and the next, much younger, generation, who use the established practices of the discipline to investigate the application of this theory in a wide range of cultural contexts. Although the authors write from such different starting points, a surprisingly similar set of images, phrases and topics of concern emerge in their essays. They return constantly to issues of difference and similarity, the re-examination of categories that often appear to be too rigidly defined in current postcolonial practices, and to concepts of sharing: experience, ideas of home, and even the use of land. Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture offers an intriguing analysis of the state of postcolonial criticism today and of the application of postcolonial methods to a variety of texts and historical events. It is an invaluable contribution to the current debate in both literary and cultural studies.

Postcolonialism --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Postcolonialism. --- British Commonwealth --- anno 1900-1999