THE COLONIZING IMPULSE OF POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

Among the reasons that Black chooses Kiva to illustrate her sentimental thesis is the website's use of personal narratives, and these, she asserts, "harness the mode of sentimental bonding once associated with eighteenth and nineteenth-century readers of fiction" (281). Since she note...

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Published in:Modern fiction studies 2010-12, Vol.56 (4), p.769-787
Main Author: Hawley, John C.
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Language:eng
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Summary:Among the reasons that Black chooses Kiva to illustrate her sentimental thesis is the website's use of personal narratives, and these, she asserts, "harness the mode of sentimental bonding once associated with eighteenth and nineteenth-century readers of fiction" (281). Since she notes that "on and off the page, sentimental structures of feeling turn reading novels into a form of imaginative border crossing" (272), it is not surprising that Black's follow-up to this study is a full-length analysis of the process of imagining social difference in novels Fiction Across Borders:
ISSN:0026-7724
1080-658X
1080-658X