Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Alison Rudd provides a comparative analysis of the way the gothic has provided writers from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with a means to express the anxieties of postcolonial experience and the traumatic legacies of colonialism. She covers a diverse terrain of well-known contemporary writers, including Derek Walcott, Shani Mootoo, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, and Keri Hulme.
233 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2010
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Spectres of the Post(Colonial)
2 Caribbean Gothic: The Divided Psyche and the Duppy as
Social Figure
3 Canadian Gothic: The Mapping of Postcolonical Anxieties
4 Australian Gothic: The Uncanny and Abject Hauntings of Lost Innocence and Guilt
5 New Zealand Gothic: The Unspeakable Symptoms of Postcolonial Abjection
6 Conclusion: Joining the Dots, Minding the Gaps
Notes
References
Index
1 Spectres of the Post(Colonial)
2 Caribbean Gothic: The Divided Psyche and the Duppy as
Social Figure
3 Canadian Gothic: The Mapping of Postcolonical Anxieties
4 Australian Gothic: The Uncanny and Abject Hauntings of Lost Innocence and Guilt
5 New Zealand Gothic: The Unspeakable Symptoms of Postcolonial Abjection
6 Conclusion: Joining the Dots, Minding the Gaps
Notes
References
Index