The Postcolonial Novel

Themes in 20th Century Literature & Culture
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3279-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

- A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies.
- Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical debates and as such are invaluable for teaching.
- Places the emphasis on the text first and theory second, thus providing a unique and much needed approach to postcolonial literature, which in the past has been maligned for being theory driven.
- Takes an historical approach, thus covering a good range of texts that have generated lots of critical discussion and evaluative materials.
- Written clearly for an undergraduate reader, with introductory overviews at the start of each chapter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lane, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements vi
1. Introducing the Postcolonial Novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the peacock 1

2. The Counter-canonical Novel: J.M. Coerzee's Foe and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 18

3. Alternative Historiographies: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 32

4. National Consciousness: Ngu~gi~ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat 47

5. Interrogating subjectivity: Bessie Head's A Question of Power 59

6. Recoding Narrative: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing 71

7. The Rushdie Affair: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 83

8. The Optical Unconscious: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Conclusion: Ending with Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Phyllis Greenwood's An Interrupted Panorama 97

Conclusion 109

Notes 115

Bibliography 133

Index 144

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Lane, Malaspina University-College