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ISBN:
9789004361409
Serie:
Cross/cultures volume 202
Inhalt:
"Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "Introduction" -- "PART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDING" -- "Woman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the MahÄbhÄrata and Chitra Divakaruniâs The Palace of Illusions" -- "âOn a road between two citiesâ: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuriâs A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)" -- "Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstoneâs Early Photographs" -- "How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Birdâs Wild West" -- "The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and Fiction" -- "PART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTS" -- "Migrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic" -- "Reworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe)" -- "Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylorâs Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steelâs On the Face of the Waters (1897)" -- "Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twainâs Following the Equator" -- "Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick Whiteâs Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer Myth" -- "PART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH" -- "âIn Vishnu-land what avatar?â Robert Browning and the Empire of Song" -- "Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghoshâs The Hungry Tide" -- "Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martelâs Life of Pi
Inhalt:
"Relocating the Mythical Self in Three MÄori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, and the bone people by Keri Hulme" -- "Notes on Contributors and Editors
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ISBN 9789004359833
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Literary location and dislocation of myth in the post/colonial anglophone world Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004359833
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Mythos
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Nationalcharakter
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Identität
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004361409
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