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Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

Name: Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction
Author: Chidi Okonkwo,Okonkwo
ISBN: 9780312220686

by Chidi Okonkwo, Okonkwo

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This book uses theory and in-depth textual criticism to explore how novelists from formerly colonized 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 novelists' interpretation of the colonial experience.

About the Author, Chidi Okonkwo,Okonkwo

Chidi Okonkwo is Senior Lecturer in English at University College, Chester.

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Originally from Nigeria, Okonkwo (English, U. College Chester, England) challenges the prevailing western-originated concept of postcoloniality as an attempt to submerge Third World anti-colonialist writing under western strategic calculations for the post-cold war era. Rather than homogenizing all literature that is not white, male, and privileged, he distinguishes between that of Europe's temporarily disadvantaged insiders, the outposts of European imperialism in the Americas and Australasia, and of third-world peoples and ethnic minorities within dominant countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)