Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction
Download or Read eBook Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction PDF written by C. Okonkwo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : C. Okonkwo |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 1999-05-10 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230375314 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230375316 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction by : C. Okonkwo
Book excerpt: 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.
