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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
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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- Description
- ix, 288 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This collection of essays reflects the intensified worldwide debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Together they have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as in America and Europe. Postcolonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.
- Series Statement
- New casebooks
- Uniform Title
- New casebooks
- Subject
- Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
- Desai, Anita, 1937- > Criticism and interpretation
- Walcott, Derek > Criticism and interpretation
- Achebe, Chinua
- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
- Walcott, Derek
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, (1938- ...) > Critique et interprétation
- Desai, Anita, (1937- ...) > Critique et interprétation
- Walcott, Derek, (1930- ...) > Critique et interprétation
- Achebe, Chinua, (1930- ...) > Critique et interprétation
- Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Literature
- Postcolonialism
- Englisch
- Postkoloniale Literatur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Décolonisation > Dans la littérature
- Colonisation > Dans la littérature
- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise
- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise > 1945- ... > Histoire et critique
- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise > 1945- ... > Histoire et critique
- Nigeria > In literature
- Kenya > In literature
- India > In literature
- West Indies > In literature
- Commonwealth countries
- India
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- West Indies
- Nigeria > Dans la littérature
- Kenya > Dans la littérature
- Inde > Dans la littérature
- Antilles anglophones > Dans la littérature
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 challenge of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- 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: revolutionary nationalism and the representation of women in the writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Elleke Boehmer -- '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 -- '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.
- ISBN
- 0312126646
- 9780312126643
- LCCN
- 95009734
- OCLC
- ocm32131405
- 32131405
- SCSB-2069851
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library