Colonial Literature and the Native Author : Indigeneity and Empire /
This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonized, indigenous or '...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Summary: | This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonized, indigenous or 'native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticized subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the colonizer? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 254 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783319387666 3319387669 |