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100 | 1 | _aWalder, Dennis | |
245 | 1 | 0 | _aPost-colonial literatures in English : |
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_aOxford, UK ; _aMalden, Mass. : _bBlackwell Publishers, _c1998 |
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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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