Postcolonial Stylistics

<p>This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial studies and illustrates how to apply the analytical and theoretical tools of stylistics to a selection of literary and non-literary texts from a range of English-speaking postcolonial contexts.</p><p>Structured around the five keywords of Language Identity Belonging History and Ecology the book:</p><ul> <li>sheds light on the way in which writers from a range of former colonial territories have creatively drawn from such thematic areas to construct complex and committed discourses</li> <li>shows how a rigorous linguistic analysis can help reach a better understanding of the rhetorical mechanisms and cultural dynamics operating in these works</li> <li>underlines how meaning is generated from the interaction between author reader and context; how narratives shape and propagate a specific worldview; and how metaphor can convey social and political values</li> <li>expands on each keyword by considering texts of different typology such as fiction poetry drama and non-fiction accompanied by activities and references</li> <li>includes historical and literary postcolonial timelines and an index of names and topics</li> </ul><p>Comprehensive in its coverage and assuming no prior knowledge of the topics considered the book adopts an interactive and activity-based approach to develop readers’ understanding of linguistic structures and forms through postcolonial texts. Offering a new interdisciplinary perspective this is essential reading for students new to stylistics and postcolonial literature.</p>