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Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Chidi Okonkwo

    1. University College Chester, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Crisis and Politics in Postcolonial Discourse

    • Chidi Okonkwo
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Politics of Form: Ideology, Form and Technique

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    Pages 33-64

  4. The Agonistic of Tongues

    • Chidi Okonkwo
    Pages 65-113

  5. Cultural Affirmation and Resistance

    • Chidi Okonkwo
    Pages 114-154

  6. Casualties of Freedom

    • Chidi Okonkwo
    Pages 155-195

  7. The Novel as Cosmography

    • Chidi Okonkwo
    Pages 196-203

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 204-236
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About this book

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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  • University College Chester, UK

    Chidi Okonkwo

About the author

CHIDI OKONKWO studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukkar and then the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. He completed his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has taught at several universities in Nigeria and since 1991 has been based in the UK. Until recently (1998) he was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College Chester. He is also a playwright. His play Doctor on Call: A Tragic Farce won the 1998 Association of Nigerian Authors' Drama Prize, while his second entry, The Ghost at the Feast, was also shortlisted for the prize.

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