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The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures
Author:
Ralph Pordzik
ISBN:
9780820451930
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2001
Pages:
199
Size:
15 x 23 cm
Weight:
410 grams
Price:
INR
1740.00
About the Book
The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia is a critical introduction to utopian and dystopian fiction written in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. It outlines the development of utopian writing over the last thirty years and analyzes the relationship between postcolonial and utopian issues foregrounded in these works. Based on a comparative approach that takes into account the different traditions the texts are derived from, this book examines the function of utopian alternatives and dystopian anxieties in the writings of a wide range of well-known authors such as Janet Frame, David Ireland, J M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood, Glenda Adams, John Cranna, Suniti Namjoshi, Mike Nicol, Ben Okri, Gerald Murnane, and Timothy Findley.
About the Author
Ralph Pordzik
Ralph Pordzik teaches English and American literature at Essen University, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in English literature from the Free University of Berlin. The author of two books on English poetry, he has published widely in journals in the fields of utopian literature and modern British and postcolonial writing.
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