Lexington Books
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978-1-66692-162-5 • Hardback • July 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed is assistant professor of English and comparative literature in the humanities department, College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime, (AAST) Cairo, Egypt.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Postcolonial Literature and Comparative Literature
Chapter Two: Mimicry and Fragmented Identities in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Chapter Three: Memory as a Reflection of Cultural Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival and Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Chapter Four: A Journey from Unhomeliness to Hybridity in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life and Magic Seeds and Toni Morrison’s Home
Chapter Five: Gender in Naipaul and Morrison
Chapter Six: Naipaul and Morrison: Some Conclusions and New Comparative Outlooks
Bibliography
About the Author
This analysis of Naipaul and Morrison extends the boundaries of both postcolonial and comparative literary studies. It reinforces a central question – ‘how do we read the postcolonial?’ A penetrating work from a young scholar.
— Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales