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Sawler, Trevor Craig.

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A people without a past: Isolation in selected post-colonial novels.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A people without a past: Isolation in selected post-colonial novels./
Author:	Sawler, Trevor Craig.
Description:	105 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Rowland Smith.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International32-06.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MM87493
ISBN:	9780315874930

A people without a past: Isolation in selected post-colonial novels.
Sawler, Trevor Craig.

A people without a past: Isolation in selected post-colonial novels. - 105 p.

Adviser: Rowland Smith.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1993.

Writers from countries that were formerly English colonies are vastly different in terms of their style, the subject matter of their work, and the cultures that they write about. There are certain common elements, however; one of these is the way in which these artists reflect isolation in their work. This investigation considers a single novel by each of four different authors: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist, V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men, and David Adams Richards's Blood Ties. In each case isolation is explored from three different perspectives: emotional isolation, where a character is unable to come to terms with or understand his or her own emotions and motivations; social isolation, where two or more groups, racial or otherwise, are unable to communicate because of a lack of understanding or common ground; and cultural isolation, where an entire culture is cut off from its history, religion, and all that gives it definition. Both emotional and social isolation are common to much of this century's literature, but cultural isolation is unique to colonial and post-colonial fiction. The parallels between each of the four novels are explored, as well as the differences in the way each writer uses isolation in his or her novel.

ISBN: 9780315874930Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

A people without a past: Isolation in selected post-colonial novels.
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