Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2010
Series: Book 21 of 80 - Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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- Title
- Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
- Author
- Deckard, Sharae
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415997399
- ISBN 13
- 9780415997393
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 21 of 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical tropes of paradise across the "long modernity" of the capitalist world-system, Deckard reads literature from postcolonial nations in context with colonial discourse in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a topos motivating European exploration and colonization, shifts into an ideological myth justifying imperial exploitation, and finally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary writers to critique neocolonial representations and conditions in the age of globalization.
Combining a range of critical perspectives―cultural materialist, ecocritical, and postcolonial―the volume opens up a deeper understanding of the relation between paradise discourse and the destructive dynamics of plantation, tourism, and global capital. Deckard uncovers literature from East Africa and South Asia which has been previously overlooked in mainstream postcolonial criticism, and gestures to how the utopian dimensions of the paradise myth might be reclaimed to promote cultural resistance.
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About the Author
Sharae Deckard is a Lecturer in World Literature at the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.
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