Decolonising the Mind of the Antipodean Author: Gothic Tropes and Postcolonial Discourse in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
This article analyses Peter Carey’s novel My Life as a Fake (2003) through the lens of genre fiction, focusing on how the Gothic mode combines with key concepts in postcolonial studies. Intertextual references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and analogies with Step...
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Il Tolomeo |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2021/23/023 |