Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden - Rilegato

Deckard, Sharae

 
9780415997393: Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden
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ISBN 10: 0415997399 ISBN 13: 9780415997393
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010

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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 a literary motif used by contemporary writers to critique neocolonial representations and conditions in the age of globalization.

Combining a range of critical perspectives―cultural materialist, ecocritical, and postcolonial―the volume opens up a deeper understanding of the relation between paradise discourse and the destructive dynamics of plantation, tourism, and global capital. Deckard uncovers literature from East Africa and South Asia which has been previously overlooked in mainstream postcolonial criticism, and gestures to how the utopian dimensions of the paradise myth might be reclaimed to promote cultural resistance.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sharae Deckard is a Lecturer in World Literature at the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415997399
ISBN 13 
9780415997393
Rilegatura
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
254
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ISBN 10:  1138820814 ISBN 13:  9781138820814
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014
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