Postcolonial literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott
Postcolonial literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott
edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey
- London Macmillan Press Ltd. 1995
- ix, 288p. ; 22 cm.
- New Casebooks .
Includes bibliography, notes and index.
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 : Devided 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 / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- Philip Rogers -- Robin Ikegami -- Chidi Okonkwo -- Stewart Crehan -- F. Odun Balogun -- Elleke Boehmer -- Harveen Sachdeva Mann -- Bettina L. Knapp -- Judie Newman -- Clement H. Wyke -- Daizal R. Samad -- Elaine Savory -- Sidney Burris
9780230525221 0230525229
English literature--Critical appraisal--1968-
English
820.900914 / PAP
Includes bibliography, notes and index.
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 : Devided 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 / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- Philip Rogers -- Robin Ikegami -- Chidi Okonkwo -- Stewart Crehan -- F. Odun Balogun -- Elleke Boehmer -- Harveen Sachdeva Mann -- Bettina L. Knapp -- Judie Newman -- Clement H. Wyke -- Daizal R. Samad -- Elaine Savory -- Sidney Burris
9780230525221 0230525229
English literature--Critical appraisal--1968-
English
820.900914 / PAP