Capillaries of History and Strategies of Discovery in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda

Capillaries of History and Strategies of Discovery in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda single work criticism

Authors:agent Prashant Gupta , Sukhpreet Kahlon .

Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Capillaries of History and Strategies of Discovery in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda

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Gupta and Kahlon argue that instead of 'offsetting [Oscar and Lucinda] in the larger context of the colonization of Australia, Carey inverts this relationship and makes the event of colonization just another in the many incidents that take up a personal history of the narrator'.

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Epigraph: Far more than concepts and categories, stories are the only real lingua franca human beings can use. In old times, in all corners of the world, without a single exception, human beings started knowing things and communicating their knowledge to others through stories ... Roberto Calasso.