Interviews with writers of the post-colonial world / conducted and edited by Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock.
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TextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1992Description: 312 p. : ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780878055722 (pbk.) :; 087805572X (paper); 0878055711 (cloth); 9780878055715 (cloth)Subject(s): Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | English literature -- Developing countries -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Authors, Commonwealth -- 20th century -- Interviews | Commonwealth countries -- Intellectual life | Developing countries -- Intellectual life | Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life | Mexican American authors -- Interviews | Mexican Americans in literature | Postcolonialism in literature | Decolonization in literature | Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) -- Histoire et critique | Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine -- Histoire et critique | Écrivains du Commonwealth -- 20e siècle -- Entretiens | Écrivains américains d'origine mexicaine -- 20e siècle -- Entretiens | Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Vie intellectuelle | Décolonisation dans la littérature | Pays du Commonwealth -- Vie intellectuelle | English literature | Commonwealth countries | United States | Letterkunde | Postkolonialisme | SchrijversAlso issued online.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 書 | 世新大學圖書館 一樓密集書庫 | 圖書 | 820.99171241 Ju 1992 (Browse shelf) | Available | E106899 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.
Ngũgi wa Thiong'o -- Nuruddin Farah -- Chinua Achebe -- Buchi Emecheta -- Sam Selvon -- Roy Heath -- Raja Rao -- Anita Desai -- Zulfikar Ghose -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Witi Ihimaera -- Rudolfo Anaya -- Rolando Hinojosa -- Sandra Cisneros.
Also issued online.
This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers. These are joined by three Chicano writers from the U.S. All fourteen included here write in English, a language they have chosen for their creative expression, and all write their novels at a time when codes of the colonial past are targets of revisionism. In this fascinating collection of fourteen interviews (eleven previously unpublished) the interviewers speak with leading writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, and the Caribbean islands, as well as with three Chicano writers. Largely considered non-canonical, they address questions about the effects of colonialism, their place in English-language literature, the politics of language in non-Western societies, and the value of their work in helping those with Western perspectives to understand their cultures. Noted writers from Africa-Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya and Chinua Achebe from Nigeria--engage in the most important discussion in African literature today, whether or not to write in English. Nigeria's leading feminist writer, Buchi Emecheta discusses the role of women in a primarily male literary environment. South Asian writers are represented by two well-known Indian writers, Raja Rao and Anita Desai, and by two noted Pakistani writers, Zulfikar Ghose and Bapsi Sidhwa. Sharing a common colonial history, these writers generally display less desire to differentiate their work from the Western tradition. The collection also includes an interview with the Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, who is culturally as well as geographically somewhere between the Eastern and Western cultures. Also included are four interviews with minority writers from countries where English is the dominant language, the Maori writer Witi Ihimaera from New Zealand and the three Chicano Americans, Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa, and Sandra Cisneros, who
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