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The postcolonial novel / Richard J. Lane.
Series: Themes in twentieth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006.Description: vii, 146 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780745632797 (pbk.) :
- 0745632793 (pbk.) :
- 0745632785
- 978074563278
- PR888.C6 L36 2006
Contents:
Introducing the postcolonial novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the peacock -- The counter-canonical novel: J.M. Coerzee's Foe and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Alternative historiographies: Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- National consciousness: Ngäugäi wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat -- Interrogating subjectivity: Bessie Head's A question of power -- Recoding narrative: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- The Rushdie affair: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- The optical unconscious: Arundhati Roy's The god of small things -- Conclusion: Ending with Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Phyllis Greenwood's An interrupted panorama.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PR 888 .C6 L36 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 600712 |
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| PR 881 .G74 1984 The English novel in the twentieth century : the doom of empire / | PR 881 .K25 1972 A reader's guide to the contemporary English novel | PR 881 .T83 1983 20th-century fiction / | PR 888 .C6 L36 2006 The postcolonial novel / | PR 888 .D4 H67 2005 Twentieth-century crime fiction / | PR 888 .M93 C54 2012 Mysticism in the mid-century novel / | PR 888 .W6 C83 2004 Expert modernists, matricide, and modern culture : Woolf, Forster, Joyce / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and index.
Introducing the postcolonial novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the peacock -- The counter-canonical novel: J.M. Coerzee's Foe and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Alternative historiographies: Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- National consciousness: Ngäugäi wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat -- Interrogating subjectivity: Bessie Head's A question of power -- Recoding narrative: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- The Rushdie affair: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- The optical unconscious: Arundhati Roy's The god of small things -- Conclusion: Ending with Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Phyllis Greenwood's An interrupted panorama.
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