Anglo-Irish representations and postcolonial discourse in J. S. Le Fanu’s “The familiar”

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1 The terms colonial literature and colonialist literature are used for differing purposes by some postcolonial critics. While the term “colonial literature” refers to written production expressive of “colonial perception and experiences, written mainly by metropolitans . . . during colonial times” (Boehmer 2005, 2), the second terms deals with any literature concerned with “colonial expansion . . . written by and for colonizing Europeans about non-European lands dominated by them. It embodied the imperialists’ point of view” (3).

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Richard Jorge Fernández

Richard Jorge Fernández received his B.A. in English Studies at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and went to enhance his knowledge in the field of literature with an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, where his minor thesis on the relation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Gothic tradition was directed by Declan Kiberd. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Santiago de Compostela researching the relationship between the short story and the Irish Gothic tradition in the writings of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker. He is currently working at the University of Cantabria in the Department of English Studies.