Commonwealth Literature and the Modern WorldHena Maes-Jelinek Published under the sponsorship of the Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1975 - Commonwealth literature (English) - 181 pages |
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Page 71
... Santosh in the first story ; West Indian , like the narrator of the second ; European , like Bobby and Linda in the third ) , is manipulated by the impersonal forces of history . Societies change but their aggressiveness towards the ...
... Santosh in the first story ; West Indian , like the narrator of the second ; European , like Bobby and Linda in the third ) , is manipulated by the impersonal forces of history . Societies change but their aggressiveness towards the ...
Page 73
... Santosh's story is about the stages of his self - discovery , his growth towards maturity and to the freedom he has always desired . The irony of this freedom needs no emphasis : he has exchanged the oblivious lack of ambition of the ...
... Santosh's story is about the stages of his self - discovery , his growth towards maturity and to the freedom he has always desired . The irony of this freedom needs no emphasis : he has exchanged the oblivious lack of ambition of the ...
Page 74
... Santosh yearns to be free , which legally he becomes by marrying a " hubshi " wife ; spiritually and even linguistically he is imprisoned . The brothers in the second story aspire to freedom and lose even their love for each other ; the ...
... Santosh yearns to be free , which legally he becomes by marrying a " hubshi " wife ; spiritually and even linguistically he is imprisoned . The brothers in the second story aspire to freedom and lose even their love for each other ; the ...
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African literature Afrikaans Albert Gomes Alfred Mendes Anna Rutherford Antipodean becomes Belgium Bobby and Linda British C. L. R. James Capricornia Caribbean century characters civilization colonial Commonwealth literature creative criticism cultural darkness death Edgar Wright Eliot English essay experience feel fiction Frank Collymore George Lamming Guyana H. I. E. Dhlomo Harris's heart human Ibadan Ibid imagination individual Janet Frame's journey Kyk-over-al language literary living London lover Lowry magazine Malcolm Lowry meaning Melville and Harris Melville's modern myth Naipaul narrative nature Nigerian novel novelists past Peacock Poem poet poetry political published Quartets Queely Radio reader Richard Devine Santosh says sense short story social society South African Susan symbol talk themes Tilted Cross tradition Trinidad University of Liège vision Waiting Room Walcott West Indian literature West Indian writers West Indies whole Wilson Harris Wole Soyinka Xhosa Zulu