Lifting the sentence : a poetics of postcolonial fiction

Lifting the sentence : a poetics of postcolonial fiction / Robert Fraser.

A study of postcolonial literature, focusing on "its style, the detail of its texts, its voice: the various ways ... that it constitutes itself as literature. ... The plan of the book is ... to examine particular works from the point of view of their stylistic and formal characteristics."-...

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Main Author: Fraser, Robert, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Some Contexts
  • 1. 'The potential of fiction'
  • 2. The politics of language
  • 3. Inscribing the nation
  • pt. 2. Aspects of Style
  • 4. Speaking in tongues
  • 5. Uses of person
  • 6. Uses of tense
  • 7. Voice, tone and mood
  • pt. 3. Aspects of Form
  • 8. Typology, symbol and myth
  • 9. Time and duration
  • 10. Parody as politics
  • pt. 4. Postcolonial Theory as Fiction
  • 11. Theocolonialism: persons, tenses and moods.

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