Subtitle on cover: A commonwealth perspective. "Proceedings of the Third Commonwealth-in-Canada Conference, October 1985"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Image of the National Child in the work of Atwood, Rushdie, Soyinka and White / Ken Goodwin -- West Indian and South African; the committed individual in Selvon, Lovelace, Anthony and Coetzee / Harold Barratt -- The enemy within : political commitment in contemporary English-Canadian literature / Diana Brydon -- Commitment in West Indian Poetry / Katie Yvonne Jones -- Alex la Guma: South Africa's revolutionary writer / Cecil Abrahms -- Men among Gods : an analysis of Wole Soyinka's 'The interpreters' / Horace I. Goddard -- Marginality and commitment: Birney's poetry seen through 'Down the long table' / Ian Adam -- If he were ever presentable: Colonial representation in Wiebe's ' The scorched wood people' / Patrick Holland -- George Lamming: violence and culture / Patrick Taylor -- Goerge Lamming's vision of sprawling Caribbean dereliction / Frank Birbalsingh -- Vision and place: Naipaul's paradoxicality and literary commitment / Clement H. Wyke -- The philosophy of neutrality: the treatment of political militancy in Samuel Selvon's Moses ascending and Moses Migrating / Victor J. Ramraj -- Grimus: Salman Rushdie's first experiment with postmodernist narrative / Nasrin Rahimieh -- Rushdie and political commitment : a study of 'Midnight's children and shame' / Shamsul Islam -- 'Nines into sevens in the lovely smiling land' : Maurice Duggan's 'Along Rideout Road that summer' and the question of commitment / Susan Gingell -- Literature and English: the emergent period in Singapore and Malaysia / Dudley De Souza.
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