THE HISTORY HOUSE IN THE (POST-)COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANGLO-INDIAN AND ANGLO-IRISH HOMELAND REPRESENTATIONS AND REPRESSIONS
THE HISTORY HOUSE IN THE (POST-)COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANGLO-INDIAN AND ANGLO-IRISH HOMELAND REPRESENTATIONS AND REPRESSIONS
Author(s): Ioana ZirraSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Anglophile; decolonization; history house; lyrical; nationalistic; postcolonial trauma; satirical
Summary/Abstract: The history house, a recurrent image and a developing symbol which occurs in post-colonial poems and novels (by W.B.Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Arundhaty Roy, respectively), allows us to discriminate between lyrical rehearsing and satirical hushing of historical trauma in nationalistic versus Anglophile (Anglo-Irish/Anglo-Indian) decolonization scores/texts/contexts.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 113-123
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
