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9780719053702

Lifting the Sentence; The Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719053702

  • ISBN10:

    0719053706

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-01-06
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary

Is the term "postcolonial fiction" meaningful? Is there any such thing as a postcolonial literary aesthetic? Robert Fraser's contention in this thought-provoking book is that these questions can be answered in the affirmative only if postcoloniality is interpreted, less as a condition than as a development through six specified historical phases. As the penal "sentence" of imperialism is gradually lifted, he argues, successive types of syntactical "sentence" have come into play: colonial and postcolonial grammars, distinctive uses of person, tense, mood, and form.

Author Biography

Robert Fraser is Senior Research Fellow in the Literature Department of the Open University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
PART ONE: SOME CONTEXTS
`The potential of fiction'
2(9)
The politics of language
11(15)
Inscribing the nation
26(14)
PART TWO: ASPECTS OF STYLE
Speaking in tongues
40(25)
Uses of person
65(34)
Uses of tense
99(19)
Voice, tone and mood
118(24)
PART THREE: ASPECTS OF FORM
Typology, symbol and myth
142(27)
Time and duration
169(20)
Parody as politics
189(25)
PART FOUR: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AS FICTION
Theocolonialism: persons, tenses and moods
214(17)
Notes and references 231(10)
Select bibliography 241(6)
Index 247

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