| Description |
ix, 450 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Caribbean theatre of ritual : Derek Walcott's Dream on monkey mountain, Michael Gilke's Couvade : a dream play of Guyana, and Dennis Scott's An echo in the bone / Christopher Balme (16 p.). -- Words unbroken by the beat : the performance poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Mikey Smith / Carolyn Cooper (18 p.). -- Dread talk : the speech of Rastafari in modern Jamaican poetry / Velma Pollard (14 p.). -- Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons : representations of nationalism and women in African literature / Elleke Boehmer (19 p.). -- Culture and literary production in Zimbabwe / Pauline Dodgson (11 p.). -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o as mythologizer and mythologized / Carol Sicherman (17 p.). -- Both as a citizen and as a woman? : women and politics in some Gordimer novels / Kathrin M Wagner (16 p.) |
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Figures, configurations, transfigurations / Edward W Said (15 p.). -- Fabric of the imagination / Wilson Harris (12 p.). -- Schizophrenic imagination / Nayantara Sahgal (9 p.). -- Temporary suspensions : form and multi-cultural expression / Paul Sharrad (14 p.). -- History of interruptions : dislocated mimesis in the writings of Neil Bissoondath and Ben Okri / David Richards (9 p.). -- Progresses of the soul : affliction in three novels of colour : André Schwarz-Bart's A woman named solitude, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Bessie Head's A question of power / Roger Langen (11 p.). -- Transformations in the fiction of Ben Okri / T.J Cribb (6 p.). -- Accomodation and revolt : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the cross / Oliver Lovesey (9 p.). -- Yoruba folk opera : a cross-cultural flowering / Oyekan Owomoyela (21 p.) |
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From nature to roots : school anthologies and a Caribbean canon / Anne Walmsley (12 p.). -- Politics and poetics of national formation : recent African writing / Simon Gikandi (13 p.). -- Decolonizing women's romance / Dorothy Jones (9 p.). -- Love stories / Robin Dizard (8 p.). -- Ideology and autobiography in the Jean Rhys oeuvre / Veronica Marie Gregg (13 p.). -- Stow's Tourmaline : a test town for structural anthropology / Russell McDougall (8 p.). -- Transformative imageries / Helen Tiffin (8 p.). -- Culture and identity : politics and writing in some recent post-colonial texts / Gareth Griffiths (9 p.). -- Commonwealth writer in exile / Bruce King (5 p.) |
| Analysis |
Commonwealth countries |
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Literature |
| Notes |
Papers given at the Silver Jubilee conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held at the University of Kent in 1989 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Colonies in literature.
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Nationalism and literature -- Commonwealth countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Rutherford, Anna.
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Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
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| LC no. |
10004942 |
| ISBN |
1871049423 (paperback) |
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