Postcolonial Historical Novel (eBook)

Hamish Dalley is Assistant Professor of World Literature at Daemen College, Amherst, New York, USA. His research focuses on historical representation and literary form in various branches of postcolonial fiction.

Acknowledgements Note on the Text PART I: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF HISTORICAL REALISM 1. The Contemporary Postcolonial Historical Novel: Beyond Anti-Realism 2. Allegorical Realism: Toward a Poetics of the Postcolonial Historical Novel PART II: ALLEGORIES OF SETTLEMENT 3. Typification and Frontier Violence: Kate Grenville's The Secret River 4. The Gender of Settler Realism: Fiona Kidman's The Captive Wife PART III: NARRATING TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES 5. Deterritorializing Allegorical Realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea 6. Aesthetics of Absent Causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun PART IV: MELANCHOLY REALISMS 7. Spectres of Civil War Trauma: Chris Abani's Song for Night 8. Metafictional Realism and the Dialectic of Allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish 9. Conclusion: The Historical Novel, from Postcolonial Reconciliation to Environmental Crisis Bibliography Index