Fiction has a stake in the state's future, which it demonstrates by treating civil war as a
setting for literary experimenta tion. Recent novelistic experiments largely complement …

THE LITERATURE of a society tells us much about its culture, soeial structure and even
politics. Indeed, the fietion of a certain eountry, eulture or period may reveal more of its …

F REDRIC JAMESON HAS ARGUED that all Third-World texts are national allegories where
there is no room for private dramas, a sweeping generalization that suggests that the" Third …

VS Naipaul is by now recognized as the most talented of those West Indian novelists who
have appeared on the literary scene since the publication, in 1949, of VS Reid's New Day …

The American war story is often the tale of the individual white male heterosexual soldier, a
story of his personal experience of disillusionment and loss. In these narratives, war …

"... a spirited, well-researched volume... this highly readable study is an impressive work
ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intended general and academic audiences." …

Chinua Achebe's contribution to the emergence and survival of the Nigerian novel has been
crucial and formidable. By the Nigerian novel we simply mean any novel written by …

The Overcoming of History in" War and Peace" marks a radical departure from the critical
tradition dominated by Sir Isaiah Berlin's view that the novel is deeply divided against itself …

Discussion on the imperial project in British literary consciousness has customar ily been
confined to the colonial novel, a category of convenience covering range of genres and …

Tocqueville's early recognition of an intimacy between literary and sociopolitical traditions
emerges alongside his view that in a democracy “each generation is a new people.” This …