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Informationen zum Autor Richard Lane , Malaspina University-College Klappentext The Postcolonial Novel provides a concise and invaluable introduction to the rise of postcolonial literatures in English through close readings of seminal novels. These novels which continue to generate debate long after publication and have influenced the ways in which we think about literature and literary studies provide an ideal entry point to the subject for students. Each main chapter begins with a helpful introductory overview, and then closely reads a key novel before moving on to examine the impact and significance of that particular text. The book as a whole works to introduce and explain the emergence of theoretical discourse from these close readings, drawing extensively upon leading indigenous and western critics and theorists. Students will be encouraged to use this book to debate a wide range of critical issues that have been generated by postcolonial literatures. Richard J. Lane is Professor of English, Malaspina University-College, Canada Zusammenfassung * A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies. * Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical debates and as such are invaluable for teaching. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements vi 1. Introducing the Postcolonial Novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the peacock 1 2. The Counter-canonical Novel: J.M. Coerzee's Foe and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 18 3. Alternative Historiographies: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 32 4. National Consciousness: Ngügi¿ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat 47 5. Interrogating subjectivity: Bessie Head's A Question of Power 59 6. Recoding Narrative: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing 71 7. The Rushdie Affair: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 83 8. 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 97 Conclusion 109 Notes 115 Bibliography 133 Index 144 ...
