Written Orders
Chiu, Man Yin
Written Orders is an innovative focused study of four writers whose careers coincided with the decline of the British Empire from apogee to dissolution. Each adapts the realist novel form to reflect his personal engagement with the crisis in colonial authority and the crisis in the legitimating discourses of colonialism. Leonard Woolf, deploying a form of proto-magical realism, executes an act of imaginative compensation for the limitations of...