Commonwealth Fiction : Twenty First Century Readings

Contents: Preface. 1. Crisis of representation in Wole Soyinka’s season of anomy. 2. Subverting difference and reconstructing human identity in Bessie Head’s when rain clouds gather. 3. In dubious battle: a critical study. 4. The colonial context of Michael Ondaatje. 5. Historiographic metafiction: the pastime of Past Time from a poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction by Linda Hutcheon. 6. The great resonances. 7. Difference and identity in contemporary Anglo-Canadian fiction. 8. A bend in the river. 9. V.S. Naipaul’s world of fiction. 10. Fred D’Aguiar’s the longest memory. 11. The Moor’s last Sigh. 12. Salman Rushdie’s Fury. 13. Transmuted reality in Raj Kamal Jha’s the Blue Bedspread. 14. A feminist view of partition: Shauna Singh Baldwin’s what the body remembers. Bibliography.

Commonwealth Fiction: Twenty First Century Readings is prepared as per the latest syllabus of different Indian Universities. In this book, the author analyses some important works of fiction originating from the former British colonies, besides dealing with major topics in the current postcolonial debate and put Commonwealth fiction itself into perspective. This book will be highly useful to the students, teachers and researchers and researchers of English literature, particularly those studying Commonwealth fiction.