The Empire Writes Back
Deconstructive Paradigms in Jack Maggs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22154403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shengjia Wan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 154-159 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2456-7620 • E-ISSN: 2456-7620 |
| Publisher | AI Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22161/ijels.93.18 |
| OpenAlex | W4399162298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In his ‘neo-Victorian novel’ Jack Maggs, Peter Carey seeks to retell Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations from the postcolonial perspective. Jack Maggs, a stand-in for Dickens’s Magwitch, is shaped into the protagonist in Carey’s work, which telegraphs the author’s close attention to marginalized groups in British society. By endowing the silent ‘other’ with the opportunity to speak, Carey attempts to deconstruct the hegemony of the Anglo-centric narrative and reshape the unique cultural identity of Australians, which simultaneously embodies the self-reflexivity of his literary practice
Aesthetics · Art · Empire · Hegemony · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |