Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Colonial Subjects and Rebels: Reading the Colony in Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Achebe Reads Conrad
Things Fall Apart
The Coloniser and the Colonised: Portrait of the Coloniser
The Coloniser in Things Fall Apart
The Coloniser and the Colonised: Portrait of the Colonised
Négritude
Poetry After Négritude: Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘Caliban’
Dream on Monkey Mountain
2. Postcolonial Nations and Nationalism: Writing the Long History of Decolonisation
Ngũgĩ Reads Carter
A Grain of Wheat
The Pitfalls of Postcolonial Nationalism: Fanon and Ngũgĩ
Postcolonial Literature as National Allegory
Nationalism, Gender, and Rebellion in Nervous Conditions
The Black Atlantic’s Critique of Ethno-nationalism
Speaking into the Silence: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. On Stereotypes, Mimicry, and a Postcolonial Concept of Difference
Rhys Reads Brontë
Engaging with Bhabha: Stereotype – Mimicry – Hybridity
Contesting Bhabha in Theory and Criticism
Contesting Hybridity in Literature: The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Deleuze and Postcolonial Theory
4. The Subaltern and the Second-Wave in Postcolonial Theory and Literature
Spivak Reads Rhys
Engaging with Spivak
Defining the Subaltern
Poststructuralist Difference in Spivak’s Thought
‘No Locusts Stand I’: Uncovering the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
The Marxist Critique of The God of Small Things
J. M. Coetzee and the Problem of Representation
Reading the Subaltern in Waiting for the Barbarians
5. Case Study: A Postcolonial Engagement with Omeros
Walcott Reads the Classics
Portrait of a Coloniser
Routes Not Roots: Hybridity in Omeros
Representing the Subaltern
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Lorna Burns is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Postcolonialism After World Literature: Relation, Equality, Dissent (2019) and Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy (2012).
