Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The postcolonial novel / Richard J. Lane.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Themes in twentieth-century literature and culturePublication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006.Description: vii, 146 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0745632793 (pbk.)
  • 9780745632797 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.83 L11p 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: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: SLASS-English and Modern Languages
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Cover image Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Vol info URL Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds Item hold queue priority Course reserves
Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 808.83 L11p 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Available 019783
Total holds: 0

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.

English

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.