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Author Khair, Tabish.

Title The gothic, postcolonialism and otherness : ghosts from elsewhere / Tabish Khair
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 198 pages)
Contents Introduction. The gothic, postcolonialism and otherness -- The gothic and otherness. Ghosts from the colonies ; The devil and the racial other ; Heathcliff as terrorist ; Smoke and darkness : the heart of Conrad ; Emotions and the gothic -- Postcolonialism and otherness. Can the other speak? ; Negotiating vodou : some Caribbean narratives of otherness ; Can the 'other half' be told? Brodber's Myal ; The option of magical realism ; Narration, literary language and the post/colonial -- Conclusion. Summing up
Summary A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index
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Subject Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism
Postcolonialism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary essays.
Asian history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Racism in literature
Postkoloniale Literatur
Gothic novel
Das Andere
Schauerliteratur -- englische.
Schauerliteratur -- amerikanische.
Andere -- (der Andere) -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
Andere -- (der Andere) -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA.
Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Andere (das Andere)
Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Andere (das Andere)
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230251045
0230251048