Postcolonial Literatures
This collection of essays reflects the intensified worldwide debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Together they have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as in America and Europe. Postcolonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex...
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This collection of essays reflects the intensified worldwide debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Together they have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as in America and Europe. Postcolonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.BooknewsThis collection of 14 essays scrutinizes the work of four writers and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their homelands. The discussion is placed in within the context of the worldwide debate in literary theories since 1968 and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgementsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroduction1Essays on Chinua Achebe1How the Centre is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart312No Longer at Ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of Whiteness'533Knowledge and Power, the Story and the Storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah654Chinua Achebe: the Wrestler and the Challenge of Chaos83Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o5The Politics of the Signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood1016Ngugi's Devil on the Cross: the Novel as Hagiography of a Marxist1277The Master's Dance to the Master's Voice: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Representation of Women in the Writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o143Essays on Anita Desai8'Going in the Opposite Direction': Feminine Recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the City1559Fire on the Mountain: a Rite of Exit17710History and Letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay195Essays on Derek Walcott11'Divided to the Vein': Patterns of Tormented Ambivalence in Walcott's The Fortunate Traveller20912Cultural Imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain22713Value Judgements on Art and the Question of Macho Attitudes: the Case of Derek Walcott24514An Empire of Poetry259Further Reading269Notes on Contributors283Index285
\ BooknewsThis collection of 14 essays scrutinizes the work of four writers and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their homelands. The discussion is placed in within the context of the worldwide debate in literary theories since 1968 and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
