20th century english literature
20th century world literature
A01=Rosemary Marangoly George
asian literature
Author_Rosemary Marangoly George
belonging
british and irish fiction
british and irish literature
british romantic poets
Category=DSBH
changes
colonialism
domesticity
edward said
empire
empire studies
englishwoman
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
exile
frederic jameson
home
immigration
imperial fiction
imperialism
joseph conrad
literary allegiances
literary criticism
postcolonial theory
postcolonialism
representations of home
third world fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780520220126
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home." She reads English women's narration of their success in the empire against Joseph Conrad's accounts of colonial masculine failure, R. K. Narayan alongside Frederic Jameson, contemporary Indian women writers as they recycle the rhetoric of the British Romantic poets, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamaica Kincaid, and Conrad through Naipaul and Ishiguro.
Rosemary Marangoly George is Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, and the editor of Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (1998).
