Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction
- authored by
- Jana Gohrisch
- Abstract
Combining a gendered postcolonial with a generic approach, this essay demonstrates how the British Empire is being domesticated and normalised in middlebrow fiction about the British West Indies from the end of the nineteenth century until the late 1930s. In their novels, Augusta Zelia Fraser and Margaret Long merge the conventions of domestic realism and the Bildungsroman as well historical romance, Gothic and crime to translate imperial concerns about gender, social class and race into the language of their white and female middle-class readers in the metropolis.
- Organisation(s)
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English Department
- Type
- Contribution to book/anthology
- Pages
- 103-123
- No. of pages
- 21
- Publication date
- 28.05.2020
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Literature and Literary Theory
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426566_007 (Access:
Closed)
