Glorious Outlaws: Debt as a Tool in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction Contributor(s): Wilczynski, Marek (Other), Morska, Izabela (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631623747 ISBN-13: 9783631623749 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $88.41 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 809.305 |
LCCN: 2015044067 |
Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.1" (1.10 lbs) 310 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of debts paid and unpaid. Working at the intersection of critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and postcolonial studies, the book includes an overturning of the well-established argument about Conrad and race, an examination of the connection between debt and class both historical and contemporary, and direct comparisons between debt in fiction and current issues of debt in the economy world-wide. |