Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America

by Patsy J. Daniels

Overview

This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins connection among these writers and their respective works. Patsy Daniels argues that the thinkers and writers of colonized culture must learn the language of the colonizer and take it back to their own community thus making themselves translators who occupy a manufactured, hybdid space between two cultures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415860987
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/03/2013
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Patsy J. Daniels teaches at Lane College.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction: Making Connections
II. Yeats: Recovering History
III. Joyce: Voicing Paralysis
IV. Conrad: Questioning the Empire
V. Achebe: Revising History
VI: Kingston and Tan: Inventing One's Culture, Making One's Own Luck
VII.Morrison and Walker: Imposing Silence, Writing a Voice
VIII. Cisneros and Castillo: Resisting the Oppressor, Writing a Liberator
IX. Erdrich and Silko: Joining Heaven and Earth, Changing the Ceremony
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited