’Coming Home to Roost’: Some Reflections on Moments of Literary Response to the Paradoxes of Empire

Introduction

An Examination of the \'Politics of Recognition\' in Some Fictional Representations of Twentieth Century London and in the Works of Contemporary Commonwealth Novelists - 1

PART ONE
UNCERTAIN COORDINATES: CONRAD\'S COLONIAL CONSCIOUSNESS - 35-88

Chapter 1
Hegelian Dialectic and the Drama of Self Formation in Conrad\'s Stories of the Double - 35-61

Chapter 2
Death and the Life of the Other: 62-75

Chapter 3
A Motion towards Others - 76-88

PART TWO
POSTCOLONIAL REACTIONS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH - 89-141

Chapter 4
Coetzee and the Cost of Recognition in \"Waiting for the Barbarians\" - 89-115

Chapter 5
Living in the Penumbra of Colonialism: The Transition from Victim to Self-Mastery in Bessie Head\'s \"A Question of Power\" - 116-141

PART THREE
ENDS OF EMPIRE AND BEGINNINGS OF POST-IMPERIAL LONDON - 142-190

Chapter 6
Doris Lessing and the Emergence of London\'s Empire Within - 142-170

Chapter 7
Mike Phillips: Reporting from the Centre of Britain\'s Post-War Immigrant Experience - 171-190

Conclusion

\"And This Also Has Been One of the Dark Places of the Earth\": The Place of London in Postcolonial Studies  - 191-195

Bibliography - 196-224