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Telling it Slant - Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi (Hardcover)
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Telling it Slant - Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi (Hardcover)
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This collection develops a body of research around critically
acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other
contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works
and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural
traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work
highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by
multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This
collection describes how Oyeyemis work engages in an innovative way
with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic
tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing
identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in which
Oyeyemi is also a trouble-making feminist voice, employing feminist
strategies to rewrite genres, parody literary forms, and critique
the characterization of woman in literature. Finally it suggests
that Oyeyemis oeuvre marks a new direction in postcolonial studies
as she writes within and about the former colonial centre of
Britain, whilst foregrounding enduring colonial legacies that are
referenced through the physical and psychological trauma associated
with migration, displacement, racism, and contested national
identities.
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