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African fiction and Joseph Conrad : reading postcolonial intertextuality

Title: African fiction and Joseph Conrad : reading postcolonial intertextuality / Byron Caminero-Santangelo.
Author: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, 1961-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.

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Description

x, 172 pages; 23 cm

Summary

By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this text examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of 'the canon' can serve.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.

Contents

Beyond writing back : alternative uses of postcolonial cultural hybridity -- Extravagant aberrations : Conrad, hybridity, and Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease -- Under Kenyan eyes : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's re-vision of Under western eyes -- Legacies of darkness : neocolonialism and Conrad in Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north -- Subjects in history : disruptions of the colonial in Heart of darkness and July's people -- Struggling toward the postcolonial : the ghost of Conrad in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy.

ISBN

0791462625
9780791462621
0791462617
9780791462614

LCCN

2004013798

OCLC

ocm55729719
55729719
SCSB-14571280

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library