TY - BOOK AU - Parker, Michael, AU - Starkey, Roger. TI - Postcolonial literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott T2 - New casebooks SN - 0312126646 AV - PR9080 .P56 1995 U1 - 809 PY - 1995/// CY - London PB - Macmillan Press KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Decolonization in literature KW - Nigeria KW - In literature KW - Kenya KW - India KW - West Indies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This collection of essays reflects the intensified worldwide debate in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of postcolonial literatures in English. Together they have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as in America and Europe; Postcolonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers, Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands' ER -