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PR9214 .R36 2004
PR9214
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R36
2004
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The West Indian novel and its background /
[Book]
Kenneth Ramchand
[Revised edition]
xliv, 299 pages
"This edition contains updated year-by-year and author bibliographies, features of the original that contributed to its reliability as a guide. Two new chapters have been fitted into the text: Earl Lovelace's The dragon can't dance and Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners"--Page 4 of cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Life without fiction. Popular education in the West Indies in the nineteenth century -- The whites and cultural absenteeism -- The coloureds and class interest -- The fictional image of the Mulatto -- New bearing -- 'Tom Redcam' [Thomas Henry MacDermot] (1870-1933) -- H.G. de Lisser (1878-1944) -- The drift towards the audience -- Approaches. The language of the master? -- Terranglia -- First language or second language -- English in the West Indies : 'bad English' -- 'Black English' in British fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Novels of childhood -- Terrified consciousness -- Precursor. The road to banana bottom -- Precursors -- Claude McKay : life and poetry -- The novels of Claude McKay
The contemporary linguistic situation -- Dialect in West Indian fiction -- Dialect and distance -- Dialect and consciousness -- Some more contexts of dialect -- The lonely Londoners -- The African -- Devaluation and the response -- The west Indian interest in Africa (literary) -- Season of adventure -- Black albino -- The leopard -- The scholar-man and other leopards -- Aborigines -- The commonwealth approach -- The achievement of Roger Mais -- The world of a house for Mr. Biswas -- The dragon can't dance
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An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages
West Indian novel and its background.
West Indian fiction (English)-- History and criticism
West Indies, In literature
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PR9214
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R36
2004
Ramchand, Kenneth
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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