Extravagant postcolonialism
Subtitle: modernism and modernity in anglophone fiction, 1958-1988
By: Brian May
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781611173796; 9781611173802
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English); History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Modernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Memorials to modernity: postcolonial pilgrimage in V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie; title: Chinua Achebe: tradition and the talent for individuality; title: Modernism re(d-)dressed : interrogativity and individuality in Jean Rhys; title: Nadine Gordimer: the conservationist as conversationist; title: J. M. Coetzee: a question of the body, and an answer; title: Conclusion: postcolonial modernism, postcolonial humanism.