Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre
Description
This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.
Keywords
GOTHIC REVIVAL (LITERATURE)HORROR TALES_HISTORY AND CRITICISMPOLITICAL FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISMDECOLONIZATION IN LITERATUREIMPERIALISM IN LITERATUREPOSTCOLONIALISM
2002Book
Author(s)Andrew Smith, Hughes, William
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333984055
LanguageEnglish
