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Bezig met laden... The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fictiondoor Eileen Simpson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I know nothing of American poets. I read it just as Eileen Simpson's memoir. the poets were all drunks and/or crazy. ( ) The author is a professor of "Literatures in English and Cultural Studies". I have begun dipping into the theses of this book, and have becomes engrossed. The subtitle of the Epilogue, "All homesickness is fiction" first caught my attention. Then, (prefaced with two quotes, one from Simone Weil and one from Rushdie) comes the brilliant first sentence :' If "roots" are a conservative myth, then all homesickness is fiction. ' I then turned to the Prologue and found the intended counterpoint of subtitle : "All fiction is homesickness". I randomly started out at chapter three,-- having been forewarned that chapter two had a feminist slant,-- and searched out analyses of the few authors I was familiar with. (Btw, her writing is so compelling, and her extracts, from fiction, or from crtitical works, are so well-chosen and woven into a non-dry style of writing, that I am currently adding to my wish list of books and new authors to read.) Her characterization of "House of Mr. Biswas" was spot-on. This is extracted from the chapter with the premise that "For the global writer of literature in English, Conrad is a body of work that one has to work through *if* one is interested in positioning one's own work in relation to the 'Great English Tradition'." She prefaces her sympathetic crticism of the native home-builder's preference for "real" building materials and "real" houses, somewhat akin to Marlow's description (this is a quote from the text too) in Heart of Darkness that "normal" temperatures are those of England's climate, with the most pithy of backhanded compliments: "First published in 1961, Naipaul's A House for Mister Biswas is a partly autobiographical novel that is written with a wisdom and generosity that his later work lacks." Take that Sir Vidiya!! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home." She reads English women's narration of their success in the empire against Joseph Conrad's accounts of colonial masculine failure, R. K. Narayan alongside Frederic Jameson, contemporary Indian women writers as they recycle the rhetoric of the British Romantic poets, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamaica Kincaid, and Conrad through Naipaul and Ishiguro. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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