Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory - Softcover

Walder, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631194924 ISBN 13: 9780631194927

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study.

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In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. He then goes on to provide three detailed case studies, focusing upon Indian fiction in English, Caribbean and Black British poetry, and contemporary South African literature.

In a searching final chapter he considers, through a focus upon work by Ariel Dorfman, V. S. Naipaul and Michael Ondaatje, the questions of what might follow 'After Post-Colonialism'. Among the writers and theorists discussed are: Achebe, Brathwaite, Bhaba, Gordimer, Fanon, Freud, Henry Louis Gates Jr, C. L. R. James,Marx, Mhlophe, Miller, Narayan, Ngugi, Nichols, Said, Sahgal, Sartre, Spivak, Trivedi, and Walcott. The book provides a clear and provocative path through the texts and debates of a major and exciting new area of literary studies.

About the Author:

Dennis Walder is the author of Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory, published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0631194924
• ISBN 13: 9780631194927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248