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The Empire Writes Back: Deconstructive Paradigms in Jack Maggs

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: In his ‘neo-Victorian novel’ Jack Maggs, Peter Carey seeks to retell Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations from the postcolonial perspective. Jack Maggs, a stand-in for Dickens’s Magwitch, is shaped into the protagonist in Carey’s work, which telegraphs the author’s close attention to marginalized groups in British society. By endowing the silent ‘other’ with the opportunity to speak, Carey attempts to deconstruct the hegemony of the Anglo-centric narrative and reshape the unique cultural identity of Australians, which simultaneously embodies the self-reflexivity of his literary practice.

Source: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.93.18

Author: Shengjia Wan

Institution: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4399162298

FWCI: 4.824

Cites: 8

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10