Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott

Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott / edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.

Other author/creator	Parker, Michael, 1949-
Other author/creator	Starkey, Roger.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Description	ix, 288 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)	Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938---Criticism and interpretation. Desai, Anita, 1937---Criticism and interpretation. Walcott, Derek--Criticism and interpretation. Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism. Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries. Postcolonialism in literature. Nigeria--In literature. Kenya--In literature. India--In literature. West Indies--In literature.

Series	New casebooks New casebooks. ^A290199
Contents	How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- No longer at ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of whiteness' / Philip Rogers -- Knowledge and power, the story and the storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Robin Ikegami -- Chinua Achebe: the wrestler and the challenge of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- The Politics of the signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood / Stewart Crehan -- Ngugi's Devil on the cross: the novel as hagiography of a marxist / F. Odun Balogun -- The Master's dance to the master's voice: revolutionary nationalism and the representation of women in the writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Elleke Boehmer -- 'Going in the opposite direction': feminine recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the city / Harveen Sachdeva Mann -- Fire on the mountain: a rite of exit / Bettina L. Knapp -- History and letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay / Judie Newman -- 'Divided to the vein': patterns of tormented ambivalence in Walcott's The Fortunate traveller / Clement H. Wyke -- Cultural imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on monkey mountain / Daizal R. Samad -- Value judgements on art and the question of macho attitudes: the case of Derek Walcott / Elaine Savory -- An Empire of poetry / Sidney Burris.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
LCCN	95009734
ISBN	0312126646 (cloth)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR9080 .P56 1995	✔ Available	Place Hold