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Deconstruction imperialism and the West Indian novel

Author: Glyne A Griffith
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies, 1996.
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For review see: Sue N. Greene, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol 71, no. 1 & 2 (1997); p. 160-163.
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Griffith, Glyne A.
Deconstruction imperialism and the West Indian novel.
Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies, 1996
(OCoLC)607290345
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Glyne A Griffith
ISBN: 9766400121 9789766400125
OCLC Number: 34657550
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1993)
Description: xxiii, 147 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Metaphysics and the other: Eurocentricity and its contradictions : George Lamming and Season of adventure --
Literacy, orality and other false dichotomies --
Differance, orientalism and the politics of the oral/scribal divide --
Edward Kamau Brathwaite and nation language --
Discourse and the West Indian novel: imperialist stereotypes and West Indian narrative : H. G. DeLisser and Jane's career --
Imperialist ideology and language --
Hobson, Hegel and imperialist stereotypes --
Power, discourse and selfhood --
C.L.R. James and the "heart" of Minty Alley --
George Lamming and In the castle of my skin --
Prospero, Caliban and the possibility of dialogue --
Metaphysics and materialism : Wilson Harris and V.S. Naipaul --
Narrative strategies and the construction of selfhood: Roger Mais and John Hearne --
Deconstructing stereotypes: Jean Rhys and Earl Lovelace.
Responsibility: Glyne A. Griffith.

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For review see: Sue N. Greene, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol 71, no. 1 & 2 (1997); p. 160-163.

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