Post-colonial literatures in English :
By: Walder, Dennis.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998Description: xii, 232 pages.ISBN: 0631194916; 9780631194910; 0631194924; 9780631194927.Subject(s): Commonwealth literature (English) | Literature and society | Postcolonialism in literature | Decolonization in literature | Colonies in literature | Black people in literature | English literature | PostcolonialismDDC classification: 820.9/9171241 Summary: 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 literatureSummary: 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 WalcottItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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