Colonial Fiction
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An encyclopedia entry about colonial fiction, defined as "fiction set in what was once the colonial world, the world that European powers colonized in the 'Age of Discovery'… In this fiction, typically, white, male protagonists leave Europe as explorers, adventurers, soldiers, traders, administrators, or, occasionally, exiled criminals to encounter a foreign world of jungles, deserts, illnesses, and, especially, peoples and cultures."
ISBN
978-1-4051-9244-6
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Blackwell
Keywords
colonial fiction, British writers
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Recommended Citation
Ruppel, Richard. “Colonial Fiction." Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction. Edited by Brian Shaffer, Vol 1., Blackwell, 2010, pp. 77-81.
Copyright
Blackwell
Comments
In Brian Shaffer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction, volume 1. Dr. Ruppel's chapter begins on page 77.