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The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia is a critical introduction to utopian and dystopian fiction written in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. It outlines the development of utopian writing over the last thirty years and analyzes the relationship between postcolonial and utopian issues foregrounded in these works. Based on a comparative approach that takes into account the different traditions the texts are derived from, this book examines the function of utopian alternatives and dystopian anxieties in the writings of a wide range of well-known authors such as Janet Frame, David Ireland, J M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood, Glenda Adams, John Cranna, Suniti Namjoshi, Mike Nicol, Ben Okri, Gerald Murnane, and Timothy Findley.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Quest for Postcolonial Utopia
• Subtitle: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures
• Author: Ralph Pordzik
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 199
• EAN: 9780820451930
• ISBN: 9780820451930
• ID: 10026832
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 406 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. March 2001

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