Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy

ISBN-13: 9781107008670 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 234 str.

Neil ten Kortenaar

Opis

Examines what the experience of writing, which came to Africa and the Caribbean with colonization, means to postcolonial writers.

Recenzje

"One of the book’s many strengths is the way it balances detailed attention to the impact of literacy in the central novels with panoramic shots of the field."
--Research in African Literatures

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe; 3. The contents of the tin trunk: Ìsarà by Wole Soyinka; 4. Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul; 5. Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber; 6. Southern Africa's houses of hunger; 7. Conclusion: the frontiers of writing; Bibliography; Index.