Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden

by Sharae Deckard

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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"

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