Postcolonial literatures
Subtitle: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott
By: edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.
Contributors: Parker, Michael, 1949-; Starkey, Roger.
Series: New casebooks
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938-  -- Criticism and interpretation; Desai, Anita, -- 1937-  -- Criticism and interpretation; Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; Decolonization in literature; Nigeria -- In literature; Kenya -- In literature; India -- In literature; West Indies -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar; title: No longer at ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of whiteness' / Philip Rogers; title: Knowledge and power, the story and the storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Robin Ikegami; title: Chinua Achebe: the wrestler and the challenge of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo; title: The politics of the signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood / Stewart Crehan; title: Ngugi's Devil on the cross: the novel as hagiography of a marxist / F. Odun Balogun; title: 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; title: 'Going in the opposite direction': feminine recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the city / Harveen Sachdeva Mann; title: Fire on the mountain: a rite of exit / Bettina L. Knapp; title: History and letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay / Judie Newman; title: 'Divided to the vein': patterns of tormented ambivalence in Walcott's The fortunate traveller / Clement H. Wyke; title: Cultural imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on monkey mountain / Daizal R. Samad; title: Value judgements on art and the question of macho attitudes: the case of Derek Walcott / Elaine Svory; title: An empire of poetry / Sidney Burris.