Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

This book explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonised societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Concentrating on novels written between the late 1940s and early 1990s in Africa, Polynesia, and the West Indies, it offers a fresh mode of postcolonial critique which takes account of the ideological impulses behind the novelists' interpretation of the colonial experience.

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CHIDI OKONKWO studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukkar and then the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. He completed his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has taught at several universities in Nigeria and since 1991 has been based in the UK. Until recently (1998) he was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College Chester. He is also a playwright. His play Doctor on Call: A Tragic Farce won the 1998 Association of Nigerian Authors' Drama Prize, while his second entry, The Ghost at the Feast, was also shortlisted for the prize.

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Preface List of Abbreviations Crisis and Politics in Postcolonial Discourse The Politics of Form: Ideology, Form, and Technique The Agonistic of Tongues Cultural Affirmation and Resistance Casualties of Freedom The Novel as Cosmography Bibliography Index