How the centre is made to hold in Things fall apart / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- No longer at ease: Chinua Achebe's 'Heart of whiteness' / Philip Rogers -- Knowledge and power, the story and the storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the savannah / Robin Ikegami -- Chinua Achebe: the wrestler and the challenge of chaos / Chidi Okonkwo -- The Politics of the signifier: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood / Stewart Crehan -- Ngugi's Devil on the cross: the novel as hagiography of a marxist / F. Odun Balogun -- The Master's dance to the master's voice: revolutionary nationalism and the representation of women in the writing of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Elleke Boehmer -- 'Going in the opposite direction': feminine recusancy in Anita Desai's Voices in the city / Harveen Sachdeva Mann -- Fire on the mountain: a rite of exit / Bettina L. Knapp -- History and letters: Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay / Judie Newman -- ?'Divided to the vein': patterns of tormented ambivalence in Walcott's The Fortunate traveller / Clement H. Wyke -- Cultural imperatives in Derek Walcott's Dream on monkey mountain / Daizal R. Samad -- Value judgements on art and the question of macho attitudes: the case of Derek Walcott /Elaine Savory -- An Empire of poetry / Sidney Burris

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