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VOICES FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES - Coggle Diagram
VOICES FROM ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Authors from English-speaking countries who have been awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature
:
Caribbean Derek Walcott in 1992
Trinidadian V.S. Naipaul in 2001
South African Nadine Gordimer in 1991
South African J. M. Coetzee in 2003
Nigerian Wole Soyinka in 1986
Alice Munro in 2013
Australian Patrick White in 1973
South African Doris Lessing in 2007
AFRICAN ENGLISH LITERATURES
revulsion against colonialism
passionate reassertion of indigenous cultural values
disillusionment with the fruits of independence
growing sense of alienation
anger and radicalism
Main representatives
Nigerian Chinua Achebe
created a prose style incorporating African customs and impeccable English
South Africans
Doris Lessing
Nadine Gordimer
J. M. Coetzee