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Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi
Chloe Buckley (Ed.)
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Description for Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi
Hardcover. Editor(s): Buckley, Chloe; Ilott, Sarah. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This collection describes how Oyeyemi's work engages in an innovative way with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in ... Read more
This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This collection describes how Oyeyemi's work engages in an innovative way with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197902
SKU
V9781845197902
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Ref
99-50
About Chloe Buckley (Ed.)
Chloe Buckley is an Associate Lecturer and doctoral student at Lancaster University, specializing in postmillennial gothic fiction, children's literature and the child in gothic. Sarah Ilott is a Research Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Teesside University, UK. Her main research and teaching interests are in postcolonial literature and genre fiction, particularly comedy and the gothic.
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