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Andrea Thorpe, South African London. Writing the Metropolis after 1948

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: First published in 2021, Andrea Thorpe’s South African London examines the way in which the former imperial metropole is represented in literary works by South African writers. The introduction clearly presents Thorpe’s objectives : first, her book is meant as a complement to studies such as John McLeod’s Postcolonial London (2004) or John Clement Ball’s Imagining London : Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (2004), which do not rely on a specific (former) colony but interr...

Source: Miranda

DOI: 10.4000/1410g

Author: Mélanie Joseph-Vilain

Institutions: Université de Bourgogne, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Centre Interlangues, Université Bourgogne Europe

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4410807586

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