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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 11: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 11: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English
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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial
world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies
where subjects were not free and modes of social organization
diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained
its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume
11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the
institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late
colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to
universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and
respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa
and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of
novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on
the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32
contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship
between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore
the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine
communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature
a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show
that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark
of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential
instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new
horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context,
the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine
Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe
Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
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