Decolonization agonistics in postcolonial fiction
By: Chidi Okonkwo.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Decolonization in literature.; Colonies in literature.
Description: Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction challenges the prevailing western-originated concepts of postcoloniality and postcolonial cultural/literary theory on the grounds that behind their fashionable emancipatory rhetoric, they actually submerge Third World anti-colonialist writing under Western strategic calculations for the post-cold war era.

In place of the homogenizing approach which lumps together all the world's literature outside the male-authored texts of the major European powers, it introduces important distinctions between the literature of Europe's temporarily disadvantaged insiders, the imperial-outpost literatures of the European diaspora in the Americas and Australasia, and the decolonization literatures of third-world peoples and ethnic minorities which constitute the West's third-world underbellies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.