Sharae Deckard

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

Exploiting Eden

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781138820814
• ISBN-10: 1138820814
• Artikelnr.: 41024042

Autorenporträt

Sharae Deckard is a Lecturer in World Literature at the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Paradise and Modernity Part One Chapter 1:
Gold-land of "Wild Surmise": Mexico, Colonialism, and Informal Imperialism
Chapter 2: "Perverse Paradiso": Malcolm Lowry and the Writing of Modern
Mexico Part Two Chapter 3: Dark Paradise, Lost Ophir: Colonial Imaginaries
of East Africa Chapter 4: Paradise Rejected: Abdulrazak Gurnah and the
Swahili World Part Three Chapter 5: Taprobane, Serendib, Adam's Peak:
Ceylon as "Paradise of Dharma" Chapter 6: "Make Your Own Eden": Violence,
Myth and Ecology in Romesh Gunesekera Conclusion: Revenants Notes
Bibliography Index