Critical Perspectives on Commenwealth Literature Buchkatalog

Sarah ANYANG AGBOR'S text is a conceptual, historical and functionalexamination of Commonwealth Literature. The text comes acrossas a nice way to review some of the essential conceptual andhistorical development of Commonwealth literature. This text will beof special interest for students in Commonwealth studies.The workresponds to two ways of looking at Commonwealth literature. The fi rstis a conceptual defi nition, historical development and diversifi cationof Commnwealth Literature. The other is to investigate through sociologicalcriticism the various ways Commonwealth Literature dissents .This comparative analysis which is not limited to authors and regionsbut extends to the erstwhile and the contemporary, offers invaluableinsights into the longstanding debates surrounding the concept ofCommonwealth Literature in particular and draws conclusions thatdo not pretend to close the debate but rather articulate the discursivenature of Commonwealth Literature and the ambivalence of its 'defi -ning' parameters.