Writing Ocean Worlds - Indian Ocean Fiction in English (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world-Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen-alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Comparisons in World Literature
Release date:	2023
First published:	2021
Authors:	Charne Lavery
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-087118-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-087118-5
Barcode:	9783030871185

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