TY - BOOK AU - Walder,Dennis TI - Post-colonial literatures in English SN - 0631194916 U1 - 820.9/9171241 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford, UK, Malden, Mass. PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - Literature and society KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Decolonization in literature KW - Colonies in literature KW - Black people in literature KW - English literature KW - Postcolonialism N2 - 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 ER -