The Politics of Home by Rosemary Marangoly George

The Politics of Home by Rosemary Marangoly George

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Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home".

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The Politics of Home by Rosemary Marangoly George

The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary Marangoly George argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home." She reads English women's narration of their success in the empire against Joseph Conrad's accounts of colonial masculine failure, R. K. Narayan alongside Frederic Jameson, contemporary Indian women writers as they recycle the rhetoric of the British Romantic poets, Edward Said next to M. G. Vassanji and Jamaica Kincaid, and Conrad through Naipaul and Ishiguro.
Rosemary Marangoly George is Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego, and the editor of Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity (1998).
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ISBN 13 9780520220126
ISBN 10 0520220129
Title The Politics of Home
Author Rosemary Marangoly George
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1999-10-29
Number of pages 274
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