Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden

by Sharae Deckard

Book Overview

This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical tropes of paradise across the "long modernity" of the capitalist world-system, Deckard reads literature from postcolonial nations in context with colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138820814
• ISBN13: 9781138820814
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"