Postcolonial Criticism in Practice: Close Readings of Seven Major Novels

This volume provides a comprehensive critical examination of seven foundational texts in postcolonial Anglophone literature: George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (1953), Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock (1960), V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Nadine Gordimer's July's People (1981), Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988...