Title: The quest for postcolonial utopia
First published: 2001
Description: "The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia is a critical introduction to utopian and dystopian fiction written in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. It outlines the development of utopian writing over the last thirty years and analyzes the relationship between postcolonial and utopian issues foregrounded in these works.

Based on a comparative approach that takes into account the different traditions the texts are derived from, this book examines the function of utopian alternatives and dystopian anxieties in the writings of a wide range of well-known authors such as Janet Frame, David Ireland, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Carey, Rodney Hall, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood, Glenda Adams, John Cranna, Suniti Namjoshi, Mike Nicol, Ben Okri, Gerald Murnane, and Timothy Findley."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English), Dystopias in literature, English Science fiction, History, History and criticism, Literature and society, Postcolonialism, Postcolonialism in literature, Science fiction, English, Utopias in literature, Commonwealth literature (english), history and criticism, Science fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Decolonization in literature, English Utopian fiction, English Dystopian fiction, Commonwealth
Places: Commonwealth countries
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9084 .P67 2001