Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

By: C. Okonkwo

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Hardcover | 10 May 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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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Preface
List of Abbreviations
Crisis and Politics in Postcolonial Discourse	p. 1
The Crisis of Postcoloniality	p. 1
The Emperor Rides Back: Postcoloniality in the New World Order	p. 4
Pitfalls of Multiculturalism and Cross-Cultural Critiques	p. 7
The Politics of Gender	p. 10
The Scourge of Postmodernist Mimicry	p. 21
Metahistories and Metafictions	p. 28
The Politics of Form: Ideology, Form and Technique	p. 33
The Oral Background	p. 33
The Novel and the Psychodynamics of Orality	p. 35
Interstices in Eternity: Time, Space and Number	p. 44
The Racial Debate	p. 44
The Spatio-Temporal Deixis	p. 48
Time in Thematic Structure	p. 50
Myths of the Nation: from Realism to Radical-Traditionalism	p. 54
The Agonistic of Tongues	p. 65
The Speech Pact	p. 65
Language and Order	p. 65
Re-reading the Prospero - Caliban Paradigm	p. 67
Redefining Language Nationalism	p. 70
The Language-of-Literature Debates	p. 75
Language Appropriation and Experimentation	p. 80
The Experiments	p. 88
Transcultural Accessibility	p. 96
Quasi-Translations	p. 99
Language and Historical Dynamics	p. 102
Imagery and Intertextuality	p. 106
Cultural Affirmation and Resistance	p. 114
Society in Motion	p. 114
The Making of a Nation	p. 116
Overthrows and Rebirths	p. 119
Ends, Beginnings and Biculturalism	p. 125
Modernization and the Perils of Westernization	p. 133
Colonial Wars and Decolonization Fictions	p. 143
Casualties of Freedom	p. 155
The Internal Rot and the External Plot	p. 155
The Cross-Roads of History	p. 158
The Path Not Taken	p. 166
Leadership and the Meretricious Path to Power	p. 170
Visions of Alternatives	p. 176
The Novel as Cosmography	p. 196
Notes	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 228
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