{"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":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989404381002","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":0.2,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0021989404381002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65355267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giving and Receiving: Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts, or, the Postcolonial Logic of Third World Aid","authors":"T. Woods","doi":"10.1177/0021989404381008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989404381008","url":null,"abstract":"Woods, T. (2003). Giving and Receiving: Nuruddin Farah's Gifts, or, the Postcolonial Logic of Third World Aid. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (1), 91-112.","PeriodicalId":44714,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE","volume":"38 1","pages":"112 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0021989404381008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65355365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Caribbean","authors":"S. Scafe","doi":"10.1017/S0165115300023159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115300023159","url":null,"abstract":"their rebellioa was begun not for their own sake but for mankind. This idea(lism) is a permanent theme in American thinking. Despite the paradox of this idealism existing along with corruption, violence, poverty, decay, there is something like a national American identity. Besides, John Adams, American ambassador to the Netherlands (1780 1782), held a more pessimistic view, initiating a tradition of realism and common sense. The combination of dream and reality what we have to do and what we want to do may be the best summary of the American identity.","PeriodicalId":44714,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE","volume":"39 1","pages":"29 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"1980-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0165115300023159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57167601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}