Postcolonial literature and the impact of literacy
Subtitle: reading and writing in African and Caribbean fiction
By: Neil ten Kortenaar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781107008670
Subjects: African fiction (English); Caribbean fiction (English); Literacy in literature; Commonwealth fiction (English); Postcolonialism in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe; title: The contents of the tin trunk: Sarà by Wole Soyinka; title: Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul; title: Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber; title: Southern Africa's houses of hunger.