Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds

by Greg Forter

This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present. It shows how the genre's treatment of colonialism illustrates continuities between the colonial era and our own and how the genre distils from our colonial pasts the evanescent, utopian intimations of a properly postcolonial future.

Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198830432
• ISBN13: 9780198830436
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"