McKenzie, Earl, 1943-

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.


Electronic books.

PR9214 / .M35 2009

823.09