The postcolonial novel /

Lane, Richard J., 1966-

The postcolonial novel / Richard J. Lane. - Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006. - vii, 146 p. ; 24 cm. - Themes in 20th century literature & culture . - Themes in twentieth-century literature and culture. .

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: Ngũgĩ 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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English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Postcolonialism in literature.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.

808.83 L11p 2006