β Scribed by Tabish Khair (auth.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness....Pages 3-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Ghosts from the Colonies....Pages 21-38
The Devil and the Racial Other....Pages 39-60
Heathcliff as Terrorist....Pages 61-71
Smoke and Darkness: The Heart of Conrad....Pages 72-85
Emotions and the Gothic....Pages 86-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Can the Other Speak?....Pages 101-109
Negotiating Vodou: Some Caribbean Narratives of Otherness....Pages 110-121
Can the βOther halfβ Be Told? Brodberβs Myal....Pages 122-131
The Option of Magical Realism....Pages 132-146
Narration, Literary Language and the Post/Colonial....Pages 147-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Summing Up....Pages 157-174
Back Matter....Pages 175-198
Postcolonial/World Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Modern History; Fiction; Asian History
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