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The Postcolonial Historical Novel

Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts
By:H. Dalley
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137450081
eText ISBN:9781137450098
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing.