2007
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511611339
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The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

Abstract: The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland and Britain. Lyn Innes compares the ways in which authors shape communal identities and interrogate the values and representations of peoples in newly in… Show more

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“…Innes has remarked: "James Joyce reacts to the monolithic Celtic identity endorsed by the Gaelic League and the Celtic Revival by foregrounding a Jewish Irishman of Hungarian descent as his central protagonist, and including also Italian and Anglo-Irish characters and an array of European and American references" (162). [6] Joyce"s repudiation of the arbitrary concept of the nation state gets validated through the Daedalus myth which prologues and epilogues the narrative. Daedalus and Icarus always symbolize the urge to escape from the labyrinths of imprisonment which in this fictional context epitomizes the idea of confinement and narrowness of the modern nation state.…”
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“…Innes has remarked: "James Joyce reacts to the monolithic Celtic identity endorsed by the Gaelic League and the Celtic Revival by foregrounding a Jewish Irishman of Hungarian descent as his central protagonist, and including also Italian and Anglo-Irish characters and an array of European and American references" (162). [6] Joyce"s repudiation of the arbitrary concept of the nation state gets validated through the Daedalus myth which prologues and epilogues the narrative. Daedalus and Icarus always symbolize the urge to escape from the labyrinths of imprisonment which in this fictional context epitomizes the idea of confinement and narrowness of the modern nation state.…”
Section: Repudiating Glorification Of the Pastmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Imagined Communities Anderson demonstrated with much subtlety and originality that nations were not the determinate products of given sociological conditions such as language or race or culture or religion. They had been in Europe and every where else in the world, imagined into existence (6). He argued that the historical experience of nationalism in Western Europe, in the Americas and in Russia had supplied for all subsequent nationalisms a set of modular forms from which nationalist elites in Asia and Africa had chosen the ones they liked.…”
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“…Como "mídia" de maior envergadura do que o texto impresso, o teatro era ovacionado como instrumental no processo de descolonização, enquanto tribuna de expressão nacional(ista), por lideranças políticas como Arthur Griffith (1902), que apontou o Irish National Theatre como "um poderoso agente na construção de uma nação" (p. 2), e o Sinn Féinn, que o enalteceu como "a maior força nacionalizadora de que temos posse" (apud DEAN, 2010, p. 61). Tal seria o contributo do drama no processo de descolonização do imaginário que a Irlanda, primeira colônia inglesa a obter independência, inspiraria outras a também se valerem do drama em seus projetos de emancipação, tais como a Austrália, onde Louis Esson, à semelhança dos irlandeses, criou um teatro nacional; a Nigéria, onde escritores como Wole Soyinka se interessaram, a partir dos irlandeses, pela relação entre teatro e nacionalismo; e o Caribe, onde Derek Walcott se inspirou em Synge (INNES, 2007).…”
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