Between Myth and Meaning: The Function of Myth in Four Postcolonial Novels

In Anglophone postcolonial fiction of the twentieth century, myth is used as a framing device that contains and interrogates historical event, thereby functioning as a form of alternative history. Despite the prevalence of cross-cultural symbolic systems and radically hybrid forms of narration, the...

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Main Author: Halpe, Aparna
Other Authors: Kanaganayakam, Chelva
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26507

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