Lenguas modernas; literatura; creación; didáctica

Journal Of Modern Languages ISSN Impreso: 1659-1933 ISSN electrónico: 2215-5643

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Timothy Mo’s An Insular Possession: The Fictionalization of History
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Keywords

master narratives versus local histories
historical novel
literary and extraliterary genres
Hong Kong
imperialism
metanarrativas versus historias locales
novela histórica
géneros literarios y extraliterarios
Hong Kong
imperialismo

How to Cite

Acón Chan, L. S. (2013). Timothy Mo’s An Insular Possession: The Fictionalization of History. Journal Of Modern Languages, (16). Retrieved from https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/12337

Abstract

An Insular Possession, by Hong Kong-born British novelist Timothy Mo, is the first of a series of novels that question Western attempts to impose a colonial frame of mind across Asia. Characteristically unconventional, Mo employs two genres seemingly opposed to play with a readership that is convinced that his novel is but a historiographical account. His artful mix of formal, rhetorical and semantic devices contrive to create such illusion while challenging Western imperialist rhetorics. 

 
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