Postcolonial literature and the impact of literacy : reading and writing in African and Caribbean fiction /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kortenaar, Neil ten
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Literacy in literature.
African fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Alphabétisation dans la littérature.
Roman africain (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Roman antillais (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
African fiction (English)
Caribbean fiction (English)
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Literacy in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
  • The contents of the tin trunk: Sarà by Wole Soyinka
  • Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V.S. Naipaul
  • Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber
  • Southern Africa's houses of hunger.

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