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010 a| 95009734;

020 a| 0312126646 (cloth);

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050 00 a| PR9080b| .P56 1995;

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245 00 a| Postcolonial literatures :b| Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott /c| edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey.;

260 a| New York :b| St. Martin's Press,c| 1995.;

300 a| ix, 288 pages ;c| 22 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| New casebooks;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

600 10 a| Achebe, Chinuax| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A18375;

600 00 a| Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,d| 1938-2025x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A17258;

600 10 a| Desai, Anita,d| 1937-x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A96734;

600 10 a| Walcott, Derekx| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A49803;

650 0 a| Commonwealth literature (English)x| History and criticism.=| ^A296003;

650 0 a| Postcolonialismz| Commonwealth countries.=| ^A1241475;

650 0 a| Postcolonialism in literature.=| ^A515695;

651 0 a| Nigeriax| In literature.=| ^A377658;

651 0 a| Kenyax| In literature.=| ^A33612;

651 0 a| Indiax| In literature.=| ^A382364;

651 0 a| West Indiesx| In literature.=| ^A374251;

700 1 a| Parker, Michael,d| 1949-=| ^A315831;

700 1 a| Starkey, Roger.=| ^A584092;

830 0 a| New casebooks.=| ^A290199;

994 a| X0b| ERE;

596 a| 1;

998 a| 973889;

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

Other author	Parker, Michael, 1949-
Other author	Starkey, Roger.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Description	ix, 288 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects	Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025--Criticism and interpretation. Desai, Anita, 1937---Criticism and interpretation. Walcott, Derek--Criticism and interpretation. Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism. Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries. Postcolonialism in literature. Nigeria--In literature. Kenya--In literature. India--In literature. West Indies--In literature.

Series	New casebooks New casebooks. ^A290199
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
LCCN	95009734
ISBN	0312126646 (cloth)

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