TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Richard J.
TI  - The postcolonial novel
T2  - Themes in 20th century literature & culture
SN  - 0745632793 (pbk.)
U1  - 808.83 L11p 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Commonwealth fiction (English)
N1  - 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; eng
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