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Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott
- Title
- Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott / edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 288 p.; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the Drue Heinz Book Fund for English Literature
- Series Statement
- New casebooks
- Subjects
- Kenya > In literature
- Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong(r)o, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
- India > In literature
- Walcott, Derek > Criticism and interpretation
- West Indies > In literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
- Nigeria > In literature
- Desai, Anita, 1937- > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
- Contents
- Essays on Chinua Achebe: How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil ten Kortenaar. No longer at ease : Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of whiteness' / Philip Rogers. Knowledge and power, the story and the storyteller : Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Robin Ikegami. Chinua Achebe : the wrestler and the challege of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The politics of the signifier : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood / Stewart Crehan. Ngugi's Devil on the cross : the novel as hagiography of a Marxist / F. Odun Balogun. The master's dance to the master's voice / Elleke Boehmer -- Essays on Anita Desai: "Going in the opposite direction" : feminine recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the city / Harveen Sachdeva Mann. Fire on the mountain : a rite of exit / Bettina L. Knapp. History and letters : Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay / Judie Newman -- Essays on Derek Walcott: "Divided to the vein" : patterns of tormented ambivalence in Walcott's The fortunate traveller / Clement H. Wyke. Cultural imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain / Daizal R. Samad. Value judgements on art and the question of macho attitudes : the case of Derek Walcott / Elaine Savory. An empire of poetry / Sidney Burris.
- Call Number
- Sc D 95-1706
- ISBN
- 0333608011 (cased)
- 033360802X (pbk)
- LCCN
- gb 96000971
- OCLC
- 33215667
- NYPG96-B856
- Title
- Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott / edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1995.
- Series
- New casebooks
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
- Added Author
- Parker, Michael, 1949-Starkey, Roger.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 95-1706JFD 96-2135