Postcolonial Literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott

Name: Postcolonial Literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott
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ISBN: 9780312126643

ISBN-10: 0312126646

ISBN-13: 9780312126643

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Parker, Roger Starkey

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Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/13/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


General Editors' Preface


Introduction



Essays on Chinua Achebe



How the Centre is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart




No Longer at Ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of Whiteness'




Knowledge and Power, the Story and the Storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah




Chinua Achebe: the Wrestler and the Challenge of Chaos



Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o



The Politics of the Signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood




Ngugi's Devil on the Cross: the Novel as Hagiography of a Marxist




The Master's Dance to the Master's Voice: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Representation of Women in the Writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o



Essays on Anita Desai



'Going in the Opposite Direction': Feminine Recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the City




Fire on the Mountain: a Rite of Exit




History and Letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay



Essays on Derek Walcott



'Divided to the Vein': Patterns of Tormented Ambivalence in Walcott's The Fortunate Traveller




Cultural Imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain




Value Judgements on Art and the Question of Macho Attitudes: the Case of Derek Walcott




An Empire of Poetry



Further Reading


Notes on Contributors


Index