Post-Colonial Literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Walcott and Desai [Paperback]

This collection of essays reflects the intensified debate world-wide in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of post-colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America and Europe. Post-Colonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.

Introduction.- Essays on Chinua Achebe.- Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o .- Essays on Anita Desai.- Essays on Derek Walcott.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

MICHAEL PARKER is Professor of English Literature, University of Central Lancaster. He is the author of a bestselling study, Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet, the editor of The Hurt World: Short Stories of the Troubles and the co-editor of Postcolonial Literatures.