Date of Award

Spring 2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

English

First Advisor

Dr. John Marx

Abstract

The goal of this project is to explain the appropriateness of the genre of melodrama for understanding postcolonial literature. Throughout this paper I examine how reading postcolonial fiction as melodrama may help us both to understand postcolonial issues in new ways and, at the same time, to grasp how postcolonial literature changes and enhances the notion of melodrama.

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