Earl McKenzie
Philosophy in the West Indian Novel
2009
9789766402150
168
Caribbean Literature
Contents | 8 |
Preface | 10 |
Introduction | 14 |
1. Aims of Education Historicism and In the Castle of My Skin | 19 |
2. The Meaning of Life and Black Lightning | 30 |
3. The Inner Radiance of the Self in Palace of the Peacock | 39 |
4. Knowledge and Human Understanding in A House for Mr Biswas | 46 |
5. Existentialism and The Children of Sisyphus | 57 |
6. Tragic Vision in Wide Sargasso Sea | 69 |
7. African Conceptions of a Person and Myal | 86 |
8. The Law of Karma in Sastra | 100 |
9. The Morality of Reparations in Salt | 111 |
10. Plato versus Kincaid? A Reading of The Autobiography of My Mother | 124 |
Conclusion | 135 |
Appendix | 144 |
References | 150 |
Index | 158 |