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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker brings together an
international roster of scholars who pay detailed attention to the
work and career of this prizewinning British writer, providing
critical insight into each of her nine novels, from Union Street
(1982) through the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95) to Double Vision
(2003). The eighteen essays in the volume are organized into five
sections: ""Writing Working-Class Women,"" ""Dialogue under
Pressure,"" ""Men at War,"" ""The Talking Cure,"" and
""Regenerating the Wasteland."" Taken individually, each of the
essays yields a variety of insights into Barker's fictions; taken
as a whole, the collection provides a fresh and timely overview of
Barker's oeuvre and her creative exploration of society. The volume
probes Barker's keenly historicized and yet topical preoccupations:
the social and psychological ramifications of planned violence in
war and random violence in British villages and cities, and the
comforts and tensions in relationships, whether between men in war,
women in postindustrial cities, or men and women in sex and
marriage. The volume also dissects Barker's unflinching gaze on
class, sex, murder, and psychosis, and her provocative and
emotionally moving images. It includes an interview with the
novelist, incorporates her observations on writing her most recent
novel, Double Vision, in the aftermath of wars in Bosnia and Iraq,
and explores the film adaptation of Regeneration. The volume also
presents Sarah Daniels's dramatic adaptation of Barker's novel Blow
Your House Down, which has been staged but has not previously
appeared in print.
This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer
who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern
African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in
1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with being the key progenitor
of an African literary tradition and his five novels read as
tracing the national narrative of Nigeria. Achebe depicts
precolonial societies disturbed by British colonization, in the
1890s and the 1930s, the dog days of colonization in the 1950s,
Independence in 1960 and the onset of neo-colonial problems of
corruption and civil war and, in his final novel, Anthills of the
Savannah (1987), the pervasive sense of postcolonial
disenchantment. This study casts back over Achebe's writing career
to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and
criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann's acclaimed
African Writers Series which has shaped African literature for
international audiences since 1962. Yousaf's examination of
Achebe's fiction is carefully counterpointed with detailed
discussion of the Nigerian national situation and of Achebe's
essays and criticism - including his most recent and most
autobiographical collection Home and Exile (2000) published in the
year the writer celebrated his seventieth birthday.
This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer
who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern
African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in
1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with being the key progenitor
of an African literary tradition and his five novels read as
tracing the national narrative of Nigeria. Achebe depicts
precolonial societies disturbed by British colonization, in the
1890s and the 1930s, the dog days of colonization in the 1950s,
Independence in 1960 and the onset of neo-colonial problems of
corruption and civil war and, in his final novel, Anthills of the
Savannah (1987), the pervasive sense of postcolonial
disenchantment. This study casts back over Achebe’s writing
career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial
writing and criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann’s
acclaimed African Writers Series which has shaped African
literature for international audiences since 1962. Yousaf’s
examination of Achebe’s fiction is carefully counterpointed with
detailed discussion of the Nigerian national situation and of
Achebe’s essays and criticism – including his most recent and
most autobiographical collection Home and Exile (2000) published in
the year the writer celebrated his seventieth birthday.
The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of
ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups,
as well as for literature students at school, college and
university. The series aims to give readers accessible and
informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed
and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary
fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled
to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels
in question. The books in the series all follow the same structure,
which features: a biography of the novelist, including other works,
influences and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of
the novel, drawing out the important themes and ideas; summaries of
how the novel was received upon publication and how it has
performed since publication, including film or TV adaptations and
literary prizes; a wide range of suggestions for further reading,
including websites; and a list of questions for reading groups or
students to discuss.
This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.
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