Title: Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott /
Authors: Parker, Michael, 1949-; Starkey, Roger.
Publisher: Macmillan,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua Criticism and interpretation.; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Criticism and interpretation.; Desai, Anita, Criticism and interpretation.; Walcott, Derek Criticism and interpretation.; Achebe, Chinua.; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,; Desai, Anita,; Walcott, Derek.; Commonwealth literature (English) History and criticism.; Decolonization in literature.; Nigeria In literature.; Kenya In literature.; India In literature.; West Indies In literature.
Abstract: This collection of essays reflects the intensified debate world-wide in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of post-colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America and Europe.
Contents: Introduction / Michael Parker and Roger Starkey -- Essays on Chinua Achebe. 1. How the Centre is Made to Hold in Things Fall Apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar. 2. No Longer at Ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of Whiteness' / Philip Rogers. 3. Knowledge and Power, the Story and the Storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah / Robin Ikegami. 4. Chinua Achebe: the Wrestler and the Challenge of Chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 5. The Politics of the Signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood / Stewart Crehan. 6. Ngugi's Devil on the Cross: the Novel as Hagiography of a Marxist / F. Odun Balogun. 7. 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.