The Postcolonial Historical Novel Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
Description
The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing.
Keywords
Literary CriticismAfricanFictionAsianLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguistics
2014Book
Author(s)H. Dalley
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137450081
LanguageEnglish
