Critique And Utopia In Postcolonial Historical Fiction

Download or read book Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction written by Greg Forter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how postcolonial historical fiction can be a valuable resource for thinking about the prehistory of our present. It examines how novels from, and about, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds present specific historical and oceanic instances of colonialism and highlights the continuities between the colonial era and our own.