The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism
- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel
- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river
- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife
- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun
- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night
- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish
- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.