TY - BOOK ID - 66673674 TI - The English Book and Its Marginalia : Colonial/Postcolonial Literatures after Heart of Darkness PY - 2000 VL - 35 SN - 9042013648 9789042013643 9789004488274 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - English literature - 20th century - History and criticism. KW - Imperialism in literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66673674 AB - This book is about books that recount the story of encountering another book. There are various versions of the story told and retold from the heyday of imperialism up to the present day (Homi Bhabha calls it the trope of 'the discovery of the English book'); by considering each of these versions carefully, we may also give an alternative account of twentieth-century 'English literature' as the site of an intercultural discourse. This project is very much inspired by debate on postcolonial theory, namely, the debate between Said and Bhabha. Part I is devoted to the discussion of Conrad, especially of Heart of Darkness, and investigates how the novella has continually been reproduced to the extent that it represents 'the English Book' of colonial/postcolonial literatures. The chapter on Hugh Clifford (Ch.3) is virtually the first intensive critique of his novels, such as Saleh (1908), with a particular focus on their intertextual relations with Conrad's texts. Part II examines how the story of the English Book is repeated and revised in the texts of the following authors: Joyce Cary, Isak Dinesen, V. S. Naipaul, Kaiko Takeshi, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. ER -