Ralph Pordzik

The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia is a critical introduction to utopian and dystopian fiction written in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. It outlines the development of utopian writing over the last thirty years and analyzes the relationship between postcolonial and utopian issues foregrounded in these works. Based on a comparative approach that takes into account the different traditions the texts are derived from, this book examines the function of utopian alternatives and dystopian anxieties in the writings of a wide range of well-known authors such as Janet Frame, David Ireland, J M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood, Glenda Adams, John Cranna, Suniti Namjoshi, Mike Nicol, Ben Okri, Gerald Murnane, and Timothy Findley.

A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures

The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia

The aim of this book is to bring into focus some of the major moves in western discourses about tourism and travel writing from the early Victorian to the late modern or post-western age. It offers a series of readings connecting the work of travel writers as diverse as Alexander Kinglake, William Cobbett, George Henry Borrow, E.M. Forster and Bruce Chatwin to their respective cultural and material contexts. The grounding model is that of travel writing as a form of cultural intervention and the individual text as an artificial yet intermediary space that constantly stimulates the travellers' consciousness, moving them to revise judgements passed on their own as well as on the other culture. In individual chapters, the study explores different stages of revision in travel discourse since the late-romantic age, surveys new touristic models installed in the place of received notions of picturesque or adventurous travel and analyses the role of exotic and nostalgic registers in the construction of cultural value.

Fiction, Tourism and the Social Construction of the Nostalgic

The Wonder of Travel

Hans Ulrich Seeber

Utopie und dystopie in den neuen englischen Literaturen

In der Tradition von Walter Benjamins Einbahnstrasse" und Gunter Eichs Maulwurfen" entfuhren diese Texte den Leser in eine Welt, in der Wirklichkeit und Zeichen sich in immer neuen Bildern gegen den einheitlichen, rationalen Sinn verschworen. Mit kontemplativer und ironischer Kraft entdeckt diese Prosa die Unsicherheit im Gesicherten, das Unterschwellige im Oberflachlichen. Die Spannungen an der Oberflache der Sprachen erhalten Konturen, ignorieren und verschweigen das Altbekannte, betonen das Absurde und Spielerische. Durch Schachte und Labyrinthe geht es in komische und melancholische Landschaften, die auf den Karten der Literatur bislang noch nicht eingetragen waren

Die Welt hinter Kulka

Dieser fingiert chronistische Band versammelt Aufzeichnungen, Tagesbeichten, Exerzitien und Destillate aus den Jahren 2011 bis 2018.

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