World (Postcolonial) Literature in English: Books. Books and Monographs. POST- COLONIAL AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE, GENERAL: Adam, Ian, and Helen Tiffin, eds. Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post- Colonialism and Post- Modernism. Canadian English is an odd duck, a weird amalgam of American English and our British roots. Throw in some minor influences from First Nations languages, French and other immigrant tongues and you've got yourself a quirky. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1. Rhees PR9. 08. 0. P3. 78 1. 99. 0)An edited collection of essays on Merle Hodge, Wilson Harris, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, David Malouf, Jerzy Kosinsky, and others. One of the first books to juxtapose post- colonialism and post- modernism. Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2. British Asians (also referred as South Asians in the United Kingdom, Asian British people or Asian Britons) are persons of Asian descent who reside in the United Kingdom. In British English usage, the term Asians usually.Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . B3. 4 2. 00. 3)Bahri's book is an attempt to steer criticism of postcolonial literature towards a greater engagement with the aesthetic innovations and utopian impulses of individual postcolonial texts. Bahri is particularly interested in the uses to which Frankfurt School aesthetic theory may be put. Cohn, Bernard S. Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1. Rhees DS4. 36 . C6. A collection of Cohn's essays present the history, anthropology, and colonial sociology of India. BNC User Reference Guide 10 List of Sources. Up: Contents Previous: 9 Miscellaneous tables Next: 11 The Xaira Specification. This section gives brief descriptions for the sources of all texts included in the corpus. British Orientalists' efforts at learning Indian languages, issues concerning clothing and religion, and understanding the legal system are among the typically overlooked areas of colonial discourse included in this book. Language and poetic deconstruction are examined. Collier, Gordon, and Frank Schulze- Engler, eds. Crabtracks: Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2. Koller- Collins and Rhees PR9. A5. 3 . C7. 3 2. 00. A festschrift for Dieter Riemenschneider, who helped found and consolidate the study of postcolonial anglophone literatures in Germany. The contributions are divided into three main sections. The first focuses on the process of institutionalizing the study of postcolonial anglophone literatures in Europe, the second on theory and application, and a third on the work of Riemenschneider, including letters to him from other pioneering scholars in the field, such as Syd Harrex, Viney Kirpal and Gerhard Stilz. Fiedler, Leslie A. Houston A. Baker, Jr., eds. English Literature: Opening Up the Canon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1. Koller- Collins and Rhees PR9. E5. 3 1. 98. 1)Contains an essay by E. K. Braithwaite on English in the Caribbean, and by Dennis Brutus on English in South Africa. Fraser, Robert. Lifting the Sentence: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2. Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . F7. 3 2. 00. 0)Fraser's focus in on how "postcolonial aesthetics reveals itself in practice," and his study focuses on distinctive uses of person, tense, voice, tone, mood, typology, symbol and myth in postcolonial texts, which dramatize the conflict of "writing in a language other than the mother tongue." Includes a very useful thematic bibliography and index. Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2. Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . H6. 4 2. 00. 0)Hogan's book develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and indigenous traditions. Authors dealt with include Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Buchi Emecheta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Attia Hossain. Has a useful bibliography and index. Hogan, Patrick Colm. Empire and Poetic Voice: Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism. Albany: State University of New York, 2. Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . H6. 46 2. 00. 4)Hogan's contention, in this book, is that literary and cultural traditions are entirely personal and only seem to be group matters because of assertions of categorical identity. He then presents a novel theory of literary identity based on recent work in cognitive science and culture studies. The book is notable for its close readings of specific postcolonial texts by Anita Desai, George Lamming, Rabindranath Tagore, Agha Shahid Ali, and others. Kirpal, Viney. The Third World Novel of Expatriation: A Study of Émigré Fiction by Indian, West African and Caribbean Writers. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1. Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . K5. 5 1. 98. 9)Kirpal's book is a thematically organized study of expatriate fiction by Indians, West Indians and West Africans. The writers dealt with most closely are Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, V. S. Naipaul, and George Lamming. An index is also provided. Nair, Rukmini Bhaya. Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2. Nair's monograph concentrates on the connection between difference and indifference. Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1. Nandy's classic monograph consists of two essays, "The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age and Ideology in British India," and "The Uncolonized Mind: A Post- Colonial View of India and the West."Newman, Judie. The Ballistic Bard: Postcolonial Fictions. London: Arnold, 1. Rhees PR9. 08. 4 . N4. 9 1. 99. 5)Newman's monograph is a study of postcolonial texts that explicitly rewrite influential precursor texts in order to subvert conventional representations of colonization and restore untold stories. Chapters are devoted to Jean Rhys' reworking of Jane Eyre, V. S. Naipaul's reworking of Rhys, Anita Desai and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's reworkings of E. M. Forster, J. M. Coetzee's reworkings of Daniel Defoe and D. H. Lawrence, Buchi Emecheta's reworking of G. B. Shaw, and Bharati Mukerjee's reworking of Naipaul. Schultheis, Alexandra. Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and the Nation as Family. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2. Rhees PR9. 08. 4 . S3. 8 2. 00. 4)A close reading of novels by Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, Darryl Pinckney, and Bharati Mukherjee. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Death of a Discipline. New York: Columbia University Press, 2. Rhees PN8. 65 . S6. Spivak's short monograph is divided into three chapters: "Crossing Borders," "Collectivities," and "Planetarity." The first deals with the ongoing attempts by comparative literary studies and comparative social studies to transform themselves, and traces their history as institutional enterprises. Spivak argues for a global, "world embracing" comparative literature, "studying all literatures, with linguistic rigor and historical savvy," rather than a Eurocentric one. She further argues for making "the traditional linguistic sophistication of Comparative Literature supplement Area Studies (and history, anthropology, political theory, and sociology)" in order to "take the languages of the Southern Hemisphere as active cultural media." She also offers brief readings of Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians. The second deals with the question of the formation of collectivities, and offers readings of texts which "stage the question of collectivity": Derrida's Politics of Friendship, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All, Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha. The third deals with the notion of "planetarity," as opposed to "globalism," and offers readings of Jose Marti and W. E. B. Du. Bois. Trivedi, Harish, and Meenakshi Mukherjee., eds. Interrogating Post- colonialism: Theory, Text and Context. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1. Not available in the University of Rochester Libraries.)A collection of essays from a 1. Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. The collection is divided into a section consisting of meditations on various postcolonial issues, and a section dealing with postcolonialism and India. Contributors include Bruce Bennett, Richard Allen, Gareth Griffiths, Jasbir Jain, Vijay Mishra, Arun Prabha Mukherjee, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Makarand Paranjpe, and Harish Trivedi. White, Jonathan, ed. Recasting the World: Writing after Colonialism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1. Rhees PR9. 08. 0 . R4. 2 1. 99. 3)A collection of essays on different postcolonial literatures and texts. Authors examined include Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie. BOOKS - AFRICA: Balogun, F. Odun. Ngugi and African Postcolonial Narrative: The Novel as Oral Narrative in Multigenre Performance. Quebec: World Heritage Press, 1. Rhees PR9. 38. 1. N4. 5 Z5. 37 1. 99. Balogun's monograph contends that Ngugi has created quintessential multigenre novels, by synthesizing Western logocentric and native Gikuyu oral- performance devices, in Devil on the Cross and Matigari, thus meeting the theoretical challenges of Mikhail Bakhtin and Raymond Williams. Most of the monograph is devoted to close readings of Matigari as oral- narrative performance, hagiography, mythology, realistic novel, and postmodern deconstructionist narrative. A bibliography and index are also provided. Balogun, F. Odun. Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1. Rhees PR9. 34. 4 . B3. 5 1. 99. 1)This monograph represents Balogun's attempt to remedy the neglect of African short stories by literary scholars. It is divided into two parts: The first provides a panoramic overview of the whole field, and consists of chapters focusing on recurring themes, linguistic characteristics, and the structure of irony in African short stories. The second consists of a series of chapters on short stories by two representative writers, Chinua Achebe and Taban lo Liyong. Liyong is selected to represent modernist trends, and Achebe to represent traditional practices of short story writing. Barnett, Ursula A. Ezekiel Mphahlele. Boston: Twayne, 1. Rhees PR9. 36. 9. M6. 7 Z6)A literary biography of Mphahlele, spanning 1.
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