Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization
Exploiting Eden
This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical tropes of paradise across the long modernity of the capitalist world-system, Deckard reads literature from postcolonial nations in context with colonial discourse in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a topos motivating European exploration and colonization, shifts into an ideological myth justifying imperial exploitation, and finally becomes…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-22402-8
- EAN: 9781135224028
- Produktnummer: 18425440
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'268 KB
Über den Autor
Sharae Deckard is a Lecturer in World Literature at the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.
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