African fiction and Joseph Conrad
Subtitle: reading postcolonial intertextuality
By: Byron Caminero-Santangelo.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature, Comparative -- English and African; Literature, Comparative -- African and English; African fiction -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism -- Africa; Intertextuality; Africa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond writing back : alternative uses of postcolonial cultural hybridity; title: Extravagent aberrations : Conrad, hybridity, and Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease; title: Under Kenyan eyes : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's re-vision of Under western eyes; title: Legacies of darkness : neocolonialism and Conrad in Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north; title: Subjects in history : disruptions of the colonial in Heart of darkness and July's people; title: Struggling toward the postcolonial : the ghost of Conrad in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy.