Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott / edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.

• How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- No longer at ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of whiteness' / Philip Rogers -- Knowledge and power, the story and the storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Robin Ikegami -- Chinua Achebe: the wrestler and the challenge of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- The Politics of the signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood / Stewart Crehan -- Ngugi's Devil on the cross: the novel as hagiography of a marxist / F. Odun Balogun -- The Master's dance to the master's voice: revolutionary nationalism and the representation of women in the writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Elleke Boehmer -- 'Going in the opposite direction': feminine recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the city / Harveen Sachdeva Mann -- Fire on the mountain: a rite of exit / Bettina L. Knapp -- History and letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay / Judie Newman -- ?'Divided to the vein': patterns of tormented ambivalence in Walcott's The Fortunate traveller / Clement H. Wyke -- Cultural imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on monkey mountain / Daizal R. Samad -- Value judgements on art and the question of macho attitudes: the case of Derek Walcott /Elaine Savory -- An Empire of poetry / Sidney Burris. 

Ämnesord

Motiv i litteraturen  (sao)

Postkolonialism i litteraturen  (sao)

Postkolonialism  -- Brittiska samväldet (sao)

Postcolonialism in literature  (LCSH)

Kenya  (sao)

Nigeria  (sao)

Indien  (sao)

Västindien  (sao)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Personnamn

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, 1938-

Achebe, Chinua, 1930-2013

Desai, Anita, 1937-

Walcott, Derek, 1930-

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gepz Litteraturhistoria: afrikansk: engelskspråkig: särskilda författare

Gepz Litteraturhistoria: afrikansk: engelskspråkig: särskilda författare

Geo Litteraturhistoria: asiatisk: engelskspråkig

Geqz Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: särskilda författare

Gez Litteraturhistoria: engelska: särskilda författare

Klassifikation

820.9 (DDC)

820.9 (DDC)

Gepz Achebe, Chinua (kssb/6)

Gepz Ngugi wa Thiong'o (kssb/6)

Geoz Desai, Anita (kssb/6)

Geqz Walcott, Derek (kssb/6)

Gez Desai, Anita (kssb/6)