The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness Ghosts from Elsewhere
Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of repres
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness Ghosts from Elsewhere Tabish Khair
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Contents Acknowledgements
vi
Part I
Introduction
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness
Part II 1 2 3 4 5
The Gothic and Otherness
Ghosts from the Colonies The Devil and the Racial Other Heathcliff as Terrorist Smoke and Darkness: The Heart of Conrad Emotions and the Gothic
Part III
3
21 39 61 72 86
Postcolonialism and Otherness
6 7
Can the Other Speak? Negotiating Vodou: Some Caribbean Narratives of Otherness 8 Can the ‘Other half’ Be Told? Brodber’s Myal 9 The Option of Magical Realism 10 Narration, Literary Language and the Post/Colonial
Part IV
101 110 122 132 147
Conclusion
Summing Up
157
Notes
175
Main Texts Cited
185
Index
193
v
Acknowledgements Acknowledgements are due to Wasafiri, A Companion to the History of the English Language, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and The Journal of Commonwealth Li
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