Philosophy in the West Indian novel /
Earl McKenzie.
- 1 online resource (165 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
West Indian fiction (English)--History and criticism. Philosophy in literature.