| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Halloran, Thomas F.
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| Author's Email Address |
thomasfhalloran@yahoo.fr |
| URN |
etd-09272009-065154 |
| Title |
Strangers in the Postcolonial World |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
English |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Rastogi, Pallavi |
Committee Chair |
| Demastes, William |
Committee Member |
| Otero, Solimar |
Committee Member |
| Stone, Gregory |
Committee Member |
| Hoffman, Paul |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- colonial
- literary theory
- expatriate
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| Date of Defense |
2009-08-13 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This dissertation analyzes American writing from and about the former British and French colonies in order to critique postcolonial theory and also to establish a new genre of expatriate literature. Focusing on the works of J. P. Donleavy, Edith Wharton, Paul Bowles, and Paul Theroux, I argue that reading these Americans disrupts the binary concepts encouraged by postcolonial theory. This project rethinks important dichotomies such as colonizer/colonized, center/margin, metropolis/margin, civilized/primitive, and white/non-white by examining the ambiguous American character in the postcolonial context. I argue that by categorizing the themes of American literature in the colonies, and analyzing the similarities and differences with European colonial writing we will thus see these works emerge as a fascinating sub-genre of postcolonial literature. Furthermore, by examining these themes and this perspective it is possible to see a more complete picture of the complexities and gradations of identity in the postcolonial world.
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