"Beginning to write in the mid-twentieth century, in parts of the English-speaking world that had formerly been colonies in the British Empire, and conscious of the major English figures of modernism and of the post-war literary landscape, each writer nevertheless set out to discover the appropriate form and style for his or her own work ... All these writers insist on their freedom to be guided by intuition in their exploration of their own material and in their discovery of their own voice"--Page 147. Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-167) and index.
Contents:
Prologue : the writing voice -- V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street : the 'first true book' -- Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades : the personal voice -- William Trevor's Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel : the lonely voice -- Mavis Gallant's Green Water, Green Sky : 'authentic hallucinations' -- J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands : 'the voice of the doubting self' -- Epilogue : 'writer as writer'.
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