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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index
The future of English -- Latin America and post-colonial transformation -- "Primitive and wingless": the colonial subject as child -- Childhood and possibility: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon -- Sweet futures: sugar and colonialism -- Caliban's language -- Fractured paradigms: the fragility of discourse -- A prophetic vision of the past: history and allegory in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda -- Irony, allegory and empire: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country