Introducing the postcolonial novel in English: Wilson Harris's Palace of the peacock
The counter-canonical novel: J.M. Coerzee's Foe and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Alternative historiographies: Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
National consciousness: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat
Interrogating subjectivity: Bessie Head's A question of power
Recoding narrative: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
The Rushdie affair: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses
The optical unconscious: Arundhati Roy's The god of small things
Conclusion: Ending with Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Phyllis Greenwood's An interrupted panorama.
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The postcolonial novel by Richard J. Lane. ISBN 0745632793. Published by Polity in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
