The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere

by Tabish Khair

Book Overview

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 representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349313513
• ISBN13: 9781349313518
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"