By Brian W. Shaffer
Written in transparent, jargon-free prose, this introductory textual content charts the diversity of novel writing in English within the moment half the 20th century. an attractive creation to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). offers scholars either with options for interpretation and with clean readings of chosen seminal texts. Maps out an important contexts and ideas for realizing this fiction. positive aspects readings of ten influential English-language novels together with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s story, Kazuo Ishiguro’s continues to be of the Day and Chinua Achebe’s issues disintegrate.
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As for his pamphlet, despite the fact that it was published by the Fabian society, it had very little to say in favor of Socialism. ”31 39 RTNC02 39 13/6/05, 5:37 PM Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1954) Amis was particularly skeptical about the democratization of education – “more will mean worse,” he famously wrote32 – that was occurring in the British university system after World War II. ”33 Interestingly, the author’s worries regarding this system came to light in novelist W. Somerset Maugham’s praise for Lucky Jim.
Although Catchpole, who is in any case her acquaintance not her boyfriend, does leave town for Wales, he does so on purposes of business, not romance. 58 Christine is everything that Margaret is not. In contrast to Margaret’s “minimal prettiness” (195), false refinement, “decidedly ill-judged . . royalblue taffeta” gown (106), and “bright make-up” (18), Christine sports “fair hair . . brown eyes and no lipstick . . the premeditated simplicity of the . . unornamented white linen blouse” (39).
84 Jussawalla and Dasenbrock amplify this point by arguing that, while such literature “uses the language of the former colonial power,” it also speaks in its own independent and quite original voice, often contesting the way it has been represented by earlier writers. 85 It is my aim here to suggest the variety and richness of postcolonial Anglophone novelistic output. One example of the postcolonial use of the colonizer’s language against the empire – of the empire writing back to the center – is to be found in the Nigerian Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (1958), easily the most 21 RTNC01 21 13/6/05, 5:39 PM Introduction: Contexts and Concepts famous and widely-read African novel in English.
