Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English: An Anthology ed. Robert L. Ross (Garland, September 1999, 0815314310, $75.00, 480pp, hc, an)
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- · Introduction · Robert L. Ross · in (r)
- · 1. Colonial Encounters
- · The Magistrate, from Waiting for the Barbarians · J. M. Coetzee · ex (r)
- · The Coming of the Christ-Child · Bessie Head · ss (r)
- · The Sacrificial Egg · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972
- · The Matriarch · Witi Ihimaera · ex (r)
- · The Woman at the Store · Katherine Mansfield · ss Rhythm Spring 1911
- · The Drover’s Wife · Henry Lawson · ss (r)
- · A Boer Wedding, from The Story of an African Farm · Olive Schreiner · ex (r)
- · A Matter of Taste · Alex La Guma · ss A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma, Mbari, 1962
- · The Gold Watch · Mulk Raj Anand · ss (r)
- · A Letter from Home · Doris Lessing · ss A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963
- · The Charlottetown Banquet · Robertson Davies · ss 1982
- · A Drink in the Passage · Alan Paton · ss (r)
- · 2. Postcolonial Encounters
- · “Do You Love Me?” · Peter Carey · ss (r)
- · The Testimony of Kihaahu wa Gatheeca, from Devil on the Cross · Ngugi Wa Thiong’o · ex (r)
- · The Perfume Sea · Margaret Laurence · ss (r)
- · Chloe of the Dancing Bears, from Beachmasters · Thea Astley · ex (r)
- · An Experience of India · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss (r)
- · A Horse and Two Goats · R. K. Narayan · ss The New Yorker January 23 1965
- · The Hills · Patricia Grace · ss (r)
- · The Famished Road · Ben Okri · ex Jonathan Cape, March 1991
- · Ranna’s Story, from Cracking India · Bapsi Sidhwa · ex (r)
- · Prelude: An Inheritance, from A Way in the World · V. S. Naipaul · ex (r)
- · 3. Immigrant Encounters
- · Swimming Lessons · Rohinton Mistry · ss (r)
- · Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs · Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · ss (r)
- · Buried Lives · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)
- · The Ministry’s Visiting Day, from In the Ditch · Buchi Emecheta · ex (r)
- · Joebell and America · Earl Lovelace · ss A Brief Conversation and Other Stories by Earl Lovelace, Heinemann, 1988
- · My Son the Fanatic · Hanif Kureishi · ss The New Yorker March 28 1994
- · The Angel Azraeel, from The Satanic Verses · Salman Rushdie · ex (r)
- · 4. Personal Encounters
- · Down at the Dump · Patrick White · ss (r)
- · The Sun in Winter · David Malouf · ss (r)
- · Scarlet Ibis · Margaret Atwood · nv Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood, McClelland and Stewart, 1983
- · Pigeons at Daybreak · Anita Desai · ss (r)
- · The Triumph of Poetry · Janet Frame · ss (r)
- · Some Are Born to Sweet Delight · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)
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