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The non-literate other :

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1435600789

(Number (ISBN

904202240X

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9401204713

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9781435600782

(Number (ISBN

9789042022409

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9789401204712

Erroneous ISBN

904202240X

Erroneous ISBN

9789042022409

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b739394

Title Proper

The non-literate other :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

readings of illiteracy in twentieth-century novels in English /

First Statement of Responsibility

Helga Ramsey-Kurz.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rodopi,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 506 pages)

Series Title

Costerus,

Volume Designation

new ser., v. 171

ISSN of Series

0165-9618 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-487) and index.

Text of Note

Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; i: illiteracy as a theoretical anathema; ii: illiteracy as a literary theme; iii: the non-literate without: unlettered calibans in distant europe; iv: the non-literate in sight: the unlettered native in contact narratives; v: the non-literate within: established forms of non-literacy in literate cultures; vi: the illiterate returned: illiteracy in migrant literature; closing remarks; bibliography; index.

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Text of Note

Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. Since the early twentieth century writers outside Europe have paid increasing attention to the subject as a measure both of cultural dependence and independence. So far literary studies has taken little notice of this. The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect by posing the question of how writers use their literacy to write about a condition radically unlike their own. Answers to this question are given in the analysis of nineteen works featuring illiterates yet never before studied for doing so. The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in Louise Erdrich, of fugitive or former slaves and their descendants in Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Gaines, of Untouchables in Mulk Raj Anand and Salman Rushdie, and of migrants in Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. In so doing it conveys a clear sense of the complexity and variability of the phenomenon of non-literacy as well as its fictional resourcefulness.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

Non-literate other.

International Standard Book Number

904202240X

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Literacy.

English fiction.

Literacy.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

DSB.

LIT-- 004120

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ramsey-Kurz, Helga.

Date of Transaction

20201204002556.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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