Waterland: an Overview of Image, Symbol, Motif

• Introduction: Childhood in Three Postcolonial Narratives
• Passage Concerning the Ouse from Waterland
• About the Ouse
• Beer and Water
• Eels in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Sexuality and Symbolism in Waterland and Great Expectations
• Water Imagery and Water-People in Waterland
• Glass and Water: Symbolic Imagery in Oscar and Lucinda and Waterland -- an Introduction
• Glass and Water, Love and Sexuality
• Glass and Water, Creation and Destruction
• Glass and Water: Progress, Power, and the Weakness of of Empire
• Feminizing Narrative and Landscape: Images of Women in Three Postcolonial Texts
• The Postcolonial Mother Country
• "An Empty Vessel"
• History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland

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