Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction
Información General
- Autores: Elodie Rousselot (coord.)
- Editores: Palgrave Macmillan Reino Unido
- Año de publicación: 2014
- País: Reino Unido
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 978-1-349-47724-1
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Otros catálogos
- Citas a capítulos: 4 Citas
Listado de artículos
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Introduction: Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
págs. 1-16
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Part I: Exoticizing the Historical Other
Exoticizing the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
págs. 19-36
Exoticizing Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels
págs. 37-54
págs. 55-68
"We were again on the trail of cannibals": Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's The Book of the Heathen
págs. 69-83
"It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away": Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's The Night Watch
págs. 84-100
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Part II: Exotic Fascination / Neo-historical Subversion
Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of 'Exotic' Pasts
págs. 103-119
págs. 120-137
"Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?": The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement
págs. 138-159
Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo- Historical Holocaust Fiction
págs. 160-177
"A History of Darkness": Exoticizing Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
págs. 178-195
