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London as a Literary Region
-The Portrayal of the Metropolis in Contemporary Postcolonial British Fiction-Anette Müller
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Wißner-Verlag |
Buchreihe | : | SALC Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Bd. 1) |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 11. 01. 2008 |
Seiten | : | 236 |
Einband | : | Kartoniert |
Höhe | : | 230 mm |
Breite | : | 155 mm |
Gewicht | : | 337 g |
ISBN | : | 9783896395795 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Produktinformation
Twenty-two authors of postcolonial London fiction are discussed in this study. It is not only London and their writing about London that connects them. They all share a past that has been influenced by (post)colonialism – some of these writers, like Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul, immigrated to England when they were young, while others have a parent or parents or even grand-parents that came to London to find a better life. Some, like Hanif Kureishi, were born and bred in England and have never been exposed to an immigrant community. Yet all these twenty-two authors that are included in this study are commonly seen – by critics and scholars alike – as ‘postcolonial authors,’ ‘immigrant writers’ or ‘diaspora writers.’