{"title":"V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Nobel Literature Prizes and African Writers as Cats, Dogs and Chameleons","authors":"Taban lo Liyong","doi":"10.1177/0021989404381002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Taban lo Liyong sent this comment on the award of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature to V.S. Naipaul, after reading’s the Journal’s Editorial on the subject (JCL 37, 1). It was, however, written prior to this and so bears no direct relationship to that Editorial. Nevertheless we hope it complements it as an African response to “Naipaul’s Nobel”.","PeriodicalId":44714,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE","volume":"38 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0021989404381002","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989404381002","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Taban lo Liyong sent this comment on the award of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature to V.S. Naipaul, after reading’s the Journal’s Editorial on the subject (JCL 37, 1). It was, however, written prior to this and so bears no direct relationship to that Editorial. Nevertheless we hope it complements it as an African response to “Naipaul’s Nobel”.
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"The Journal of Commonwealth Literature has long established itself as an invaluable resource and guide for scholars in the overlapping fields of commonwealth Literature, Postcolonial Literature and New Literatures in English. The journal is an institution, a household word and, most of all, a living, working companion." Edward Baugh The Journal of Commonwealth Literature is internationally recognized as the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures. It provides an essential, peer-reveiwed, reference tool for scholars, researchers, and information scientists. Three of the four issues each year bring together the latest critical comment on all aspects of ‘Commonwealth’ and postcolonial literature and related areas, such as postcolonial theory, translation studies, and colonial discourse. The fourth issue provides a comprehensive bibliography of publications in the field