Richard Lane

The Postcolonial Novel

Themes in 20th Century Literature & Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780745632797
• ISBN-10: 0745632793
• Artikelnr.: 21799446

Autorenporträt

Richard Lane, Malaspina University-College

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"A highly useful text for students of postcolonialliterature."
Modern Philology

"An accessible introduction for students ...thought-provoking discussions of some interestingworks."
Helen Hayward, Times Literary Supplement

"This is a learned, lucid and innovative book by one of theleading scholars in the field. At once a very useful resource forstudents and also a major contribution to scholarly thinking, itoffers a refreshing new perspective on key postcolonial novels inEnglish and the theoretical debates these texts have sparked.Lane's rare talent for explaining complex theoreticalconcepts while preserving the inherent difficulty of these ideas isfully engaged here.

The Postcolonial Novel is the best study of its kind todate in postcolonial studies."
Deborah L. Madsen, University of Geneva

"In The Postcolonial Novel, Richard J. Lane offers his readerswonderfully open and fresh readings of some of the most importantworks in the canon such as Palace of the Peacock, Things FallApart, Foe and Surfacing. With these readings he brings histheoretical expertise to bear in subterranean ways that illuminatethe texts while foregrounding the pleasures and intricacies oftheir stories. Readers less experienced in postcolonial theory thanLane is will have no difficulty following his approach and theywill, as I have, come away from this book convinced that, in largepart, postcolonial theorists like Spivak, Bhabha, Said, Foucaultand Genette developed their ideas in tandem with the creativewriters or, indeed, in response to these novels."
Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia