Tři pohledy na Posvátný hlad Barryho Unsworthe

• Authors: Poncarová Petra Johana

Title variants

EN

THREE PERSPECTIVES ON BARRY UNSWORTH’S SACRED HUNGER

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Barry Unsworth’s novel Sacred Hunger (1992) is one of the most notable works of British fiction that deal with the country’s involvement in the slave trade in the eighteenth century and its continuing impact. This essay focuses on Sacred Hunger, analyses the historical, postmodern, and socio-critical dimension of the novel, its close links to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Shakespeare’s Tempest, and identifies trends that Unsworth established and that were later employed by other writers who engage with the topic.

Keywords

CS

Barry Unsworth; Posvátný hlad; otrokářství; britská literatura; Zong

EN

Barry Unsworth; Sacred Hunger; slavery; British literature; Zong

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 25-36

Contributors

author

Poncarová Petra Johana

• Univerzita Karlova

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2021.2.2