Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

Okonkwo, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-05-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333638699

DOI: 10.1057/9780230375314

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 236