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D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing Colonialism in His Travel Writing and Leadership Novels
D.H. Lawrence's Border Crossing builds upon developments within postcolonial theory to argue for a reconsideration of the concept of "spirit of place" in D. H. Lawrence’s travel books and "leadership" novels – works that record Lawrence’s various encounters with racial and geographical "others." Exploring his relationship to colonialism, Dr. Oh shows how Lawrence’s belief in different "spirits" belonging to these disparate places enables him to transcend the hierarchies between metropolis and colony, between civilized and "primitive" worlds.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lawrence’s "Spirit of Place" as a Postcolonial Concept
Chapter I Place, Difference, and Otherness in Lawrence’s Travel Writing
Chapter II The Lost Girl and Aaron’s Rod: Exploring Italy as a New Place
Chapter III Lawrence’s Journey to the "Heart of Darkness" in Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush
Chapter IV Lawrentian Doubleness: Rewriting Mexican Colonial History in The Plumed Serpent
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Eunyoung Oh