The Ballistic Bard

In this study of postcolonial fiction, the author demonstrates the subversive nature of this fiction. She investigates the ways in which contemporary novelists from India, Africa and the Caribbean have explored colonial and postcolonial situations, particularly by revising classics from the past such as "Jane Eyre", "Robinson Crusoe" and "A Passage to India". The book examines this postcolonial fiction in relation to contemporary politics and popular culture. Writers considered include Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Bharati Mukherjee, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, Shashi Tharoor, Joan Riley, Hanif Kureishi and Sam Selvon.