Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire

by Jane Stafford

Book Overview

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 colonised, indigenous, or 'native' subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319387669
• ISBN13: 9783319387666
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.3"