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- Title
Dreams of Melanesia: Masculinity and the Exorcism of War in Pat Barker's "The Ghost Road."
- Authors
Shaddock, Jennifer
- Abstract
The article comments on the book "The Ghost Road," by Pat Barker. The author focused on the effect of the Melanesian sections of the narrative so as to argue that it is the cross-cultural perceptions opened by the Melanesian material that greatly gave the culminating vision and transformative power of the book. He asserted that the book offers a complicated dual vision of World War I and the attitudes on musculinity and violence that survived it.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; GHOST Road, The (Book); BARKER, Pat; MELANESIAN literature; REVERSE culture shock; WORLD War I; VIOLENCE
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2006, Vol 52, Issue 3, p656
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.2006.0074