Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. By Anuradha Dingwaney Needham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xii, 176 pp. $45.00.

Abstract

PART I - In, But Not of, the West: Repetition, Appropriation, Re-Visions of Dominant Colonial Knowledges - Inhabiting the Metropole: C.L.R. James's 'Grand Narratives' of Resistance and Emancipation - Re-Playing the Indian Subcontinent: Salman Rushdie's Method(s) of Critique - PART II - Return(s) to the Native Land: The Politics of Cultural Nationalism - Reversing Europe's Gaze: Ama Ata Aidoo's Oppositional Art - 'Retracing the African Part of Ourselves': Blackness as Revolutionary Consciousness and Identity in Michelle Cliff. - PART III - In and of the (Imperial) Metropole - 'A New Way of Being British': Hanif Kureishi's (Necessary) Defence of Mixtures and Heterogeneity