Postcolonial Literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott

This collection of essays reflects the intensified debate worldwide in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant rereadings of cultural histories in Africa, India and the Carribbean as well as in America and Europe.POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.Parker, Michael is the author of 'Postcolonial Literatures Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott' with ISBN 9780312126643 and ISBN 0312126646.