The Politics of Home
The Politics of Home
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Twentieth-century imperial and postcolonial narratives in English have a major investment in the notion of "home." At the same time, the concept of "global English" challenges the traditional boundaries of national literatures. Through inter-related readings of the work of "first-world" and "third-world" writers and theorists, including Joseph Conrad, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anita Desai, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, the author explores the problems, pleasures and privileges involved in "feeling at home" in literature.
- Illuminating new ideas about the place of literature in a world of 'global English'
- Reads 'first-world' and 'third-world' writers alongside each other, drawing new connections between them
- New readings of the work of a wide range of modern writers
Reviews & endorsements
"George does an excellent job of thinking `critically about the politics of home,...." Kanishka Chowdhury, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, The John Hopkins University Press
Product details
August 1996Hardback
9780521453349
275 pages
236 × 158 × 20 mm
0.511kg
Unavailable - out of print April 2010
Table of Contents
- Prologue: All fiction is homesickness …
- 1. Home-countries: narratives across disciplines
- 2. The authorative Englishwoman: setting up home and self in the colonies
- 3. The great English tradition: Joseph Conrad writes home
- 4. Nostalgic theorizing: at home in 'Third World' fictions
- 5. Elite plotting, domestic postcoloniality
- 6. Travelling light: home and the immigrant genre
- Epilogue: all homesickness is fiction.
