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100	1		_aLane, Richard J., _d1966- _91977
245	1	4	_aThe postcolonial novel / _cRichard J. Lane.
260			_aCambridge, UK ; _aMalden, MA : _bPolity, _c2006.
300			_avii, 146 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aThemes in 20th century literature & culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and index.
505	0		_aIntroducing 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.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _91978
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _91979
650		0	_aCommonwealth fiction (English) _xHistory and criticism. _91980
830		0	_aThemes in twentieth-century literature and culture. _91981
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