Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Book part
- Chronology of Political and Literary Events
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Colonial Novel
- 3 The Postcolonial Novel in the Wake of 1989
- 4 Magical/Realist Novels and “The Politics of the Possible”
- 5 Nature, Ecocriticism, and the Postcolonial Novel
- 6 Disability and the Postcolonial Novel
- 7 Gender, Sexuality, and the Postcolonial Novel
- 8 The Postcolonial Novel and Diaspora
- 9 Itineraries of the Sublime in the Postcolonial Novel
- 10 The Postcolonial Crime Novel
- 11 The Gleam and the Darkness
- 12 Space and the Postcolonial Novel
- 13 Tragedy and the Postcolonial Novel
- Recommended Reading
- Index
2 - The Colonial Novel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Book part
- Chronology of Political and Literary Events
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Colonial Novel
- 3 The Postcolonial Novel in the Wake of 1989
- 4 Magical/Realist Novels and “The Politics of the Possible”
- 5 Nature, Ecocriticism, and the Postcolonial Novel
- 6 Disability and the Postcolonial Novel
- 7 Gender, Sexuality, and the Postcolonial Novel
- 8 The Postcolonial Novel and Diaspora
- 9 Itineraries of the Sublime in the Postcolonial Novel
- 10 The Postcolonial Crime Novel
- 11 The Gleam and the Darkness
- 12 Space and the Postcolonial Novel
- 13 Tragedy and the Postcolonial Novel
- Recommended Reading
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel , pp. 15 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015