Post-Colonial Literatures in English

In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. Preface and Acknowledgements.

1. Introducing the Post-Colonial.

Part I: Studying Post-Colonial Literatures: .

2. History.

3. Language.

4. Theory.

Part II: Case Studies:.

5. Indo-Anglian Fiction.

6. Caribbean and Black British Poetry.

7. South African Literature in the Interregnum.

8. After Post-Colonialism?.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

"Would be particularly suitable as the basis for an undergarduate course."Contemporary South Asia

"Offers a clear survey of the development of the field, and a vigorous engagement with early scholars and more recent theorists". Year's Work in English Studies

Dennis Walder is the author of Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory, published by Wiley. In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. He then goes on to provide three detailed case studies, focusing upon Indian fiction in English, Caribbean and Black British poetry, and contemporary South African literature.

In a searching final chapter he considers, through a focus upon work by Ariel Dorfman, V. S. Naipaul and Michael Ondaatje, the questions of what might follow 'After Post-Colonialism'. Among the writers and theorists discussed are: Achebe, Brathwaite, Bhaba, Gordimer, Fanon, Freud, Henry Louis Gates Jr, C. L. R. James,Marx, Mhlophe, Miller, Narayan, Ngugi, Nichols, Said, Sahgal, Sartre, Spivak, Trivedi, and Walcott. The book provides a clear and provocative path through the texts and debates of a major and exciting new area of literary studies.