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The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America
Author(s): Patsy J. Daniels (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 188 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415936918
- ISBN-13: 9780415936910
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Patsy J. Daniels teaches at Lane College.
