Post-Colonial Literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Walcott and Desai

by Michael Parker

This collection of essays reflects the intensified debate world-wide in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of post-colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America and Europe. Post-Colonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033360802X
• ISBN13: 9780333608029
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"