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Book SynopsisHe finds that the nationcan be read as that space in which literature is thought to be able to conjoin two things that history has separated-the writer and the people.
Trade ReviewSzeman speaks softly (and subtly), but as a leading-edge theorist of postcolonial literature and cultural studies he has earned the intellectual authority that underlies the present bold project. Choice 2004 Offers an interesting and valuable argument. -- Chelva Kanaganayakam University of Toronto Quarterly 2007
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Politics of Postcolonial Nationalist Literature
1. The Nation as Problem and Possibility
2. Caribbean Space: Lamming, Naipaul, and Federation
3. The Novel after the Nation: Nigeria after Biafra
4. The Persistence of the Nation: Literature and Criticism in Canada
Conclusion: National Culture and Globalization
Notes
Index
