عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PR9214 .R36 2004
PR9214
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R36
2004
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9766371512
(Number (ISBN
9789766371517
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The West Indian novel and its background /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kenneth Ramchand
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
[Revised edition]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xliv, 299 pages
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"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
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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
Text of Note
Novels of childhood -- Terrified consciousness -- Precursor. The road to banana bottom -- Precursors -- Claude McKay : life and poetry -- The novels of Claude McKay
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
West Indian novel and its background.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
West Indian fiction (English)-- History and criticism
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
West Indies, In literature
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
813
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0099729
Number
823
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09
Edition
22
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR9214
Book number
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R36
2004
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Ramchand, Kenneth
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160712073404.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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