Colonial and postcolonial fiction : an anthology /

"Fiction writing from the old British Commonwealth once took second place to the literature of England and the United States, but this is no longer the case. Writers from around the globe - Africa, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean - have recorded their encounte...

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Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
Subjects:
Postcolonialism -- Fiction. > Social life and customs -- Fiction. > Commonwealth countries
Table of Contents:
  • The Magistrate, from 'Waiting for the Barbarians' / J.M. Coetzee
  • The coming of the Christ-child / Bessie Head
  • The sacrificial egg / Chinua Achebe
  • from The Matriarch / Witi Ihimaera
  • The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield
  • The drover's wife / Henry lawson
  • A Boer wedding, from 'The story of an African farm' / Olive schreiner
  • A matter of taste / Alex La Cuma
  • The gold watch / Mulk Raj Anand
  • A letter from home / Doris Lessing
  • The Charlottetown banquet / Robertson Davies
  • A drink in the passage / Alan Paton
  • "do you love me?" / Pater Carey
  • The testimoney of Kihaahu was Gatheeca, from "Devil on the cross' / Ngugi was Thiong'o
  • The perfume sea / Margaret Laurence
  • Chloe of the dancing bears, from Beachmasters / Thea Astley
  • An experience of India / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan
  • The hills / Patricia Grace
  • from 'The Famished Road' / Ben Okri
  • Ranna's story, from 'Cracking India' / Bapsi Sidhwa
  • Prelude: an inheritance, from 'A way in the world' / V.S. Naipaul
  • Swimming lessons / Rohinton Mistry
  • Silver pavements, golden roofs / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Buried lives / Bharati Mukherjee
  • The ministry's visiting day, from 'In the ditch; / Buchi Emecheta
  • Joebell and America / Earl Lovelace
  • My son the fanatic / Hanif Kureishi
  • The Angel Azraeel, from 'The Satanic verses' / Salman Rushdie
  • down at the dump / Patrick White
  • The sun in winter / Davie Malouf
  • Scarlet ibis / Margaret Atwood
  • Pigeons at daybreak / Anita Desai
  • The triumph of poetry / Janet Frame
  • Some are born to sweet delight / Nadine Gordimer.

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