Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction
Description
This book explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonised societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Concentrating on novels written between the late 1940s and early 1990s in Africa, Polynesia, and the West Indies, it offers a fresh mode of postcolonial critique which takes account of the ideological impulses behind the novelists' interpretation of the colonial experience.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheoryFictionModern20th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
1999Book
Author(s)Chidi Okonkwo
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333638699
LanguageEnglish
