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Extravagant postcolonialism : modernism and modernity in anglophone fiction, 1958-1988 / Brian May.

By: May, Brian, 1959-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2012]Description: 246 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781770610 (hardbound : alk. paper).Subject(s): Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism | Postcolonialism in literature | Modernism (Literature)DDC classification: 523.1
Contents:
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.
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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.

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