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Slappey, Lisa Ann.

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Writing off the map: The postcolonial landscapes of Pynchon, Marshall, Silko, and Vea (Thomas Pynchon, Paule Marshall, Barbados, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alfredo Vea, Jr.).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing off the map: The postcolonial landscapes of Pynchon, Marshall, Silko, and Vea (Thomas Pynchon, Paule Marshall, Barbados, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alfredo Vea, Jr.)./
Author:	Slappey, Lisa Ann.
Description:	203 p.
Notes:	Chair: Walter W. Isle.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3021184
ISBN:	0493329579

Writing off the map: The postcolonial landscapes of Pynchon, Marshall, Silko, and Vea (Thomas Pynchon, Paule Marshall, Barbados, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alfredo Vea, Jr.).
Slappey, Lisa Ann.

Writing off the map: The postcolonial landscapes of Pynchon, Marshall, Silko, and Vea (Thomas Pynchon, Paule Marshall, Barbados, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alfredo Vea, Jr.). - 203 p.

Chair: Walter W. Isle.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rice University, 2001.

This dissertation examines literary renderings of postcolonial American space through close readings of novels by four contemporary American writers: Thomas Pynchon's <italic>Vineland</italic> and <italic>Mason & Dixon</italic>, Paule Marshall's <italic>The Chosen Place, the Timeless People</italic>, Leslie Marmon Silko's <italic>Almanac of the Dead</italic>, and Alfredo Véa, Jr.'s <italic>La Maravilla</italic>. My study is grounded in environmental criticism's emphasis on the relationships between humans and non-human nature, particularly the interactions between peoples and places. I explore questions of domination and subjugation, possession, dispossession, and repossession, home and homelessness in the world we think we know, and the worlds we can only imagine.

ISBN: 0493329579Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Writing off the map: The postcolonial landscapes of Pynchon, Marshall, Silko, and Vea (Thomas Pynchon, Paule Marshall, Barbados, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alfredo Vea, Jr.).
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