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New Postcolonial British Genres

Shifting the Boundaries

Sarah Ilott author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:7th Sep '15

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This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

“The book offers itself as a rich source of theories and contexts for the investigation of a multitude of conventions and innovations, tropes and characters, focal points and redefinitions, providing a coherent, detailed, and comprehensive study, complete with notes and references, a bibliography and index. … highly useful for researchers and students of both genre fiction and contemporary postcolonial fiction, and merits a high recommendation as an addition to library collections of British Studies.” (Éva Pataki, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 22 (2), 2017)

“Ilott (Teesside Univ., UK) expands the notion of the postcolonial by situating the postcolonial immigrant within the metropolis and thus challenges traditional notions of British identity. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” (W. T. Martin, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

ISBN: 9781137505217

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3796g

206 pages

1st ed. 2015