Title: Postcolonial literatures
Description: This collection of essays reflects the intensified worldwide debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Together they have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as in America and Europe.

Postcolonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.
Subjects: History and criticism, Commonwealth literature (English), In literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Postcolonialism, African literature (english), English literature, west indian authors, West indies, in literature, Walcott, derek, 1930-2017, Achebe, chinua, 1930-2013, India, in literature, Africa, in literature, Decolonization in literature
Places: West Indies, Kenya, Nigeria, Commonwealth countries, India
People: Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (1938-), Anita Desai (1937-), Derek Walcott