May, Brian, 1959-

Extravagant postcolonialism : modernism and modernity in anglophone fiction, 1958-1988 / Brian May. - 246 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.

Memorials to modernity: postcolonial pilgrimage in V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie -- Chinua Achebe: tradition and the talent for individuality -- Modernism re(d-)dressed : interrogativity and individuality in Jean Rhys -- Nadine Gordimer: the conservationist as conversationist -- J. M. Coetzee: a question of the body, and an answer -- Conclusion: postcolonial modernism, postcolonial humanism.

9781781770610 (hardbound : alk. paper)

2014004289


Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)

PR9084 / M39 2014

523.1 / MAY-C

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