Article: The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)

The Transformation of Political Identity from Commonwealth through Postcolonial Literature: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje, by Lamia Tayeb. Lewiston, US; Queenston, CAN; Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen, 2006. Hardback, US$119.95.

This is a well-intentioned and sometimes well-written study, a book that one wants to like, coming as it does from a place that has not figured prominently in anglophone mappings of postcolonial writing: Tunisia. In some ways it is unexpected, not least in its bringing together three writers--Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, and Michael Ondaatje--who as a group do not immediately seem the most obvious ...

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