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Edgar Mittelholzer; Introduction by John Thieme
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This book examines how ideas about place and space have been
transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of
the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of
place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of
world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens,
spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as
reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such
debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include
Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie,
Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older
colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book
argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the
concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological
issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone
interested in the changing physical and human geography of the
contemporary world.
John Thieme here provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's
writing from its beginnings in the 1940s to his most recent work.
Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of
various contexts and intertexts--Caribbean, European and
other--that have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad
overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the
work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time.
R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian
writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of
his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels.
Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of
"authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of
its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its
non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that
Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as
Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.
Narayan's imaginary small town of Malgudi has often been seen as a
metonym for India. Thieme draws on recent thinking about the ways
in which place and space are constructed to demonstrate that
Malgudi is always a fractured and transitional site, an interface
between older conceptions of Indianness and contemporary views that
stress the ubiquitousness and inescapability of change in the face
of modernity. The study also shows that Malgudi is seen from
varying angles of vision and with shifting emphases at different
points in Narayan's career. As well as offering fresh insights into
the influences that went into the making of Narayan's fiction, this
is the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide to his novels to
have appeared to date. It provides a unique account of his
development as a writer. -- .
Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction
in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the
various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and
transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living
on an endangered planet. Focusing on fiction set in the ‘long
present’ – a term used to cover the actual present, the near
future and an historic past that interacts with the present –
Thieme argues that long-present realism negates the possibility of
deferring engagement with the climate crisis on the grounds that it
is a future threat. Thieme examines work by twelve novelists:
Margaret Atwood, James Bradley, Amitav Ghosh, Helon Habila, Liz
Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Ian McEwan, Richard Powers, Annie
Proulx, Indra Sinha, Antii Tuomainen and Wu Ming-Yi. He provides
important new insights into the methods these writers use to convey
the urgency of the climate crisis and how their work can inform our
understandings of the Anthropocene activity that endangers life on
Earth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access
under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open
access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Offering an interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts,
practices and cultural products that have come to be known as
"post-colonial", this title has been designed with students in
mind. Containing 400 entries as well as suggestions for further
reading, it provides an orientation map for undergraduates taking
courses in post-colonial literature and theory and post-colonial
studies more generally. Its range should make it a suitable
reference tool for those who have been working in the field for
some time. Covering writers, theorists, concepts, terms, political
figures, music, art, film, historical events, movements, popular
cultural forms and language, the entries are fully cross-referenced
and assume no prior knowledge.
In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M.
Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to
classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as
offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial
writing and the 'canon'. Thieme's study provides a broad overview
of such writing, focusing both on responses to texts that have
frequently been associated with the colonial project or the
construction of 'race' (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of
Darkness and Othello) and texts where the interaction between
culture and imperialism is slightly less overt (Great Expectations,
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The post-colonial con-texts
examined are located within their particular social and cultural
backgrounds with emphasis on the different forms their responses to
their pre-texts take and the extent to which they create their own
discursive space. Using Edward Said's models of filiative
relationships and affiliative identifications, the book argues that
'writing back' is seldom adversarial, rather that it operates along
a continuum between complicity and oppositionality that dismantles
hierarchical positioning. It also suggests that post-colonial
appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate
re-readings of their 'originals'. It concludes by considering the
implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics
and literary genealogies more generally. Authors examined include
Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Kamau Brathwaite, Peter Carey, J.M.
Coetzee, Robertson Davies, Wilson Harris, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert
Kroetsch, George Lamming, Margaret Laurence, Pauline Melville, V.S.
Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jean Rhys, Salman
Rushdie, Djanet Sears, Sam Selvon, Olive Senior, Jane Urquhart and
Derek Walcott.>
R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian
writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of
his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels.
Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of
"authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of
its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its
non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that
Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as
Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.
Narayan's imaginary small town of Malgudi has often been seen as a
metonym for India. Thieme draws on recent thinking about the ways
in which place and space are constructed to demonstrate that
Malgudi is always a fractured and transitional site, an interface
between older conceptions of Indianness and contemporary views that
stress the ubiquitousness and inescapability of change in the face
of modernity. The study also shows that Malgudi is seen from
varying angles of vision and with shifting emphases at different
points in Narayan's career. As well as offering fresh insights into
the influences that went into the making of Narayan's fiction, this
is the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide to his novels to
have appeared to date. It provides a unique account of his
development as a writer. -- .
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