Lifting the Sentence

Lifting the Sentence A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction

Hardback (19 Oct 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Is there such a notion as "postcolonial fiction"? Drawing upon texts from the pre-colonial era to contemporary transcultural fiction, the author argues that as the penal "sentence" of imperialism lifted,so successive types of syntactical "sentence" also apply.

Book information

ISBN: 9780719053702
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.00917242
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 252
Weight: -1g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 25mm