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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813424003321

Autore

McKenzie Earl <1943->

Titolo

Philosophy in the West Indian novel / / Earl McKenzie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jamaica : , : University of the West Indies Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-4416-2031-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

823.09

Soggetti

West Indian fiction (English) - History and criticism

Philosophy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aims of education: historicism and In the castle of my skin -- The meaning of life and Black lightning -- The inner radiance of the shelf in Palace of the peacock -- Knowledge and human understanding in A house for Mr Biswas -- Existentialism and The children of Sisyphus -- Tragic vision in Wide Sargasso Sea -- African conceptions of a person and Myal -- The law of karma in Sastra -- The moralty of reparations in Salt -- Plato versus Kincaid?: A reading of The autobiography of my mother.