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Anglocentrism refuses postcolonial territories the right to their own identities,
assuming instead that they are merely the engulfable margins of the imperial
centre. This book challenges that assumption, and the models that make it
appear ...
Anglocentrism refuses postcolonial territories the right to their own identities,
assuming instead that they are merely the engulfable margins of the imperial
centre. This book challenges that assumption, and the models that make it
appear ...
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Anglocentric assumptions that settler-invader societies are merely the frontiers of
a metropolitan centre have encouraged organicist metaphors of coming of age (
equating maturity with imperial values), stages of development, and identity ...
Anglocentric assumptions that settler-invader societies are merely the frontiers of
a metropolitan centre have encouraged organicist metaphors of coming of age (
equating maturity with imperial values), stages of development, and identity ...
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Both Atwood and White shift the focus away from depth and heart toward surface
and fringe, toward the margins rather than the privileged centres of the thematic
ancestor. Far from asserting the dominance of a master's example, they re-write ...
Both Atwood and White shift the focus away from depth and heart toward surface
and fringe, toward the margins rather than the privileged centres of the thematic
ancestor. Far from asserting the dominance of a master's example, they re-write ...
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
WestlndianLiterature | 35 |
Australian Literature | 55 |
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