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History, horror, reality: The idea of the marvelous in postcolonial fiction.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	History, horror, reality: The idea of the marvelous in postcolonial fiction./
作者:	Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi.
面頁冊數:	217 p.
附註:	Adviser: Kenneth W. Harrow.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-10A.
標題:	Literature, African. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3331984
ISBN:	9780549860204

History, horror, reality: The idea of the marvelous in postcolonial fiction.
Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi.

History, horror, reality: The idea of the marvelous in postcolonial fiction. - 217 p.

Adviser: Kenneth W. Harrow.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2008.

This dissertation examined the use of anti-realist aesthetics in the representation of history in postcolonial fiction produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, South India and Africa. More specifically, it focused on how postcolonial writers engage the issue of history, outside of the dominant realist literary expression.

ISBN: 9780549860204Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

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