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

Includes bibliography, notes and index.

ESSAYS ON CHINUA ACHEBE : 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 -- ESSAYS ON NGUGI WA THIONG'O : 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 -- ESSAYS ON ANITA DESAI : 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 -- ESSAYS ON DEREK WALCOTT : Devided 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