Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance; and vice versa; in the lsquo;art of fictionrsquo; debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?This volume links fictional; non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of lsquo;exoticismrsquo;; arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a lsquo;selfrsquo; encountering an lsquo;otherrsquo; results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities ndash; mimetic; realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic; fantastic and picturesque on the other ndash; that befit an lsquo;exoticrsquo; representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction.This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference ndash; self and other; home and away; familiarity and strangeness ndash; onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists; travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic; and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.
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Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. not the spiritual breakthrough of a brilliant mind.By Patty PetersonMuch over-rated; as are much of old artists musings (and often their art too). What was most disappointing is that he does not ILLUSTRATE his ;points - he IS AN ARTIST.is he not?! Sometimes reading old manuscripts makes one appreciate how we have learned to be realistic and logical in our efforts to teach others. I do admire his artistic creativity at the drawing board; but his writings are nothing but a reflection of his religious and cultural world; not the spiritual breakthrough of a brilliant mind.