Neil Ten Kortenaar

Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines what the experience of writing, which came to Africa and the Caribbean with colonization, means to postcolonial writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008670
• ISBN-10: 1107008670
• Artikelnr.: 33153306

Autorenporträt

Neil ten Kortenaar is Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
3. The contents of the tin trunk: Ìsarà by Wole Soyinka
4. Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul
5. Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber
6. Southern Africa's houses of hunger
7. Conclusion: the frontiers of writing
Bibliography
Index.