Philosophy in the West Indian Novel
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Caribbean Literature
Contents8
Preface10
Introduction14
1. Aims of Education Historicism and In the Castle of My Skin19
2. The Meaning of Life and Black Lightning30
3. The Inner Radiance of the Self in Palace of the Peacock39
4. Knowledge and Human Understanding in A House for Mr Biswas46
5. Existentialism and The Children of Sisyphus57
6. Tragic Vision in Wide Sargasso Sea69
7. African Conceptions of a Person and Myal86
8. The Law of Karma in Sastra100
9. The Morality of Reparations in Salt111
10. Plato versus Kincaid? A Reading of The Autobiography of My Mother124
Conclusion135
Appendix144
References150
Index158