• ISBN13: 9786131562198
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Univ Europeenne
• Publisher Imprint: Univ Europeenne
• Publication Date: January 1, 2018
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: GBP 70.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 382 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General and General

This book is concerned with ethnocentric/colonial representations of Europe's Other, and with postcolonial re-writings and subversions of such representations. It consists of a critical study of a cluster of canonical literary texts and Orientalist pictorial representations, and a critical assessment of a variety of postcolonial/resistance works writing back to these canonical texts and representations. Part of my concern with the colonial texts lies with what I consider to be sites of ambiguity in ethnocentric/colonial discourse. In my study of the postcolonial texts, emphasis is on the distinct oppositional strategies used by postcolonial writers in their subversive re-writings of colonial texts, and the different perspectives they adopt in their attempts at re-constituting and re-presenting postcolonial cultural identity and the Self from a position of oppositional, postcolonial historical and cultural consciousness.