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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.

Structured around five keywords, Language, Identity, Belonging, History, and Ecology, the book:

  • 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
  • shows how a rigorous linguistic analysis can help reach a better understanding of the rhetorical mechanisms and cultural dynamics operating in these works
  • 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
  • expands on

Postcolonial Stylistics

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 5 May 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032740898
      978-1032740898
      ISBN-10 1032740892
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      Structured around five keywords, Language, Identity, Belonging, History, and Ecology, the book:

      • 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
      • shows how a rigorous linguistic analysis can help reach a better understanding of the rhetorical mechanisms and cultural dynamics operating in these works
      • 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
      • expands on

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