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Colonies in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism.
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Colonies in literature --- Culture conflict in literature --- Decolonization in literature --- Hindus in literature --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Trinidad and Tobago. --- Trinidad and Tobago --- In literature.
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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Colonies in literature --- Exoticism in literature --- French literature --- Travel in literature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Littérature française --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Congresses --- History and criticism --- Congrès --- Histoire et critique --- Congresses. --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Exotisme dans la littérature --- Littérature française --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Congrès --- French literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Exoticism in literature - Congresses. --- Colonies in literature - Congresses. --- Travel in literature - Congresses.
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A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880's to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.
English literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature anglaise --- Impérialisme dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- anno 1800-1899
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This major reassessment of novelist V.S. Naipaul's work argues that although Naipaul regards himself as "rootless ... without a past, without ancestors," his writing is in fact rooted in the literary and historical traditions of the Caribbean and can best be understood in the context of the larger field of postcolonial discourse. Covering in chronological order all of Naipaul's books, Selwyn R. Cudjoe charts the author's development from a position in which the tension between his Eastern and Western visions of the world created classics of world literature (A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men) to his progressive identification with "the dominant imperialist ideology and racist preoccupations of the age" (In a Free State, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers). Cudjoe's analysis is grounded in contemporary literary theory, an understanding of Hinduism, and a thorough knowledge of West Indian literature and history. - Back cover.
Literature and society --- West Indians --- Decolonization in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Ethnology --- History --- Intellectual life --- Social aspects --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Naĭpol, V. S. --- Naĭpol, V. S., --- Naĭpol, Vidiadkhar Suradzhprasad, --- Найпол, В. С., --- Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад, --- נאיפול, ו. ס. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
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