Walder, Dennis
Post-colonial literatures in English : - Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998 - xii, 232 pages ;
In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. He then goes on to provide three detailed case studies, focusing upon Indian fiction in English, Caribbean and Black British poetry and contemporary South African literature In a searching final chapter he considers, through a focus upon work by Ariel Dorfman, V.S. Naipaul and Michael Ondaatje, the questions of what might follow 'After Post-Colonialism'. Among the writers and theorists discussed are: Achebe, Brathwaite, Bhaba, Gordimer, Fanon, Freud, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, C.L.R. James, Marx, Mhlophe, Miller, Narayan, Ngugi, Nichols, Said, Sahgal, Sartre, Spivak, Trivedi and Walcott
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Commonwealth literature (English)
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Decolonization in literature
Colonies in literature
Black people in literature
English literature
Postcolonialism
820.9/9171241
Post-colonial literatures in English : - Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998 - xii, 232 pages ;
In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. He then goes on to provide three detailed case studies, focusing upon Indian fiction in English, Caribbean and Black British poetry and contemporary South African literature In a searching final chapter he considers, through a focus upon work by Ariel Dorfman, V.S. Naipaul and Michael Ondaatje, the questions of what might follow 'After Post-Colonialism'. Among the writers and theorists discussed are: Achebe, Brathwaite, Bhaba, Gordimer, Fanon, Freud, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, C.L.R. James, Marx, Mhlophe, Miller, Narayan, Ngugi, Nichols, Said, Sahgal, Sartre, Spivak, Trivedi and Walcott
0631194916 9780631194910 0631194924 9780631194927
Commonwealth literature (English)
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Decolonization in literature
Colonies in literature
Black people in literature
English literature
Postcolonialism
820.9/9171241