Trends in Commonwealth Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Colonial Conflict in Things Fall Apart. 3. Compromise with Conscience in no Longer at East. 4. Religious Conflict in Arrow of God. 5. A Man of the People as Political Satire. 6. A Grain of Wheat: A Novel of Colonial Encounter. 7. The Conflict Between Christianity and Gikuyu Culture in The Rive Between. 8. Petals of Blood: An-Epic of Anti-Colonialism. 9. God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy\'s Depressing Attitude. 10. The English and Literary Quest in the Commonwealth of Nations. 11. Characteristics of Canadian Literature. 12. The Literature of Australia. 13. The Literature of New Zealand. 14. Avant-garde in Girish Karnad\'s Writings. 15. Anita Desai\'s Projection of Inner Conflict. 16. Shashi Deshpande\'s Women Sensitivity. 17. Themes in Joyce Cary. 18. The Trauma of Partition in Azadi. Bibliography. Index.

Trends in Commonwealth Literature is perhaps the first comprehensive survey of literature of this multicultural grouping of peoples and societies. Besides chapters on individual writers such as Nadine Gardimar, Wilson Harris, R.K. Narayan, Patrick White.