This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of debts paid and unpaid. Working at the intersection of critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and postcolonial studies, the book includes an overturning of the well-established argument… (more)
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (February 01, 2016)
Collection: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
Format: EPUB
Page count: 310 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English