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Graham MacPhee
Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies [PDF ebook]

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Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity Graham Mac Phee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism. He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian Mc Ewan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as ‘British national literature’, ‘new ethnicities’, ‘migrancy’ and ‘hybridity’* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners, John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dread Beat an’ Blood, Tony Harrison’s V, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Ian Mc Ewan’s Saturday

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780748647125 ● Editura Edinburgh University Press ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 6 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 2490766 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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