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100 1 _aWalder, Dennis
245 1 0 _aPost-colonial literatures in English :
260 _aOxford, UK ;
_aMalden, Mass. :
_bBlackwell Publishers,
_c1998
300 _axii, 232 pages ;
520 _aIn 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
520 8 _aIn 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
650 0 _aCommonwealth literature (English)
650 0 _aLiterature and society
650 0 _aPostcolonialism in literature
650 0 _aDecolonization in literature
650 0 _aColonies in literature
650 0 _aBlack people in literature
650 0 _aEnglish literature
650 0 _aPostcolonialism
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