Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America

This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Daniels argues that the thinkers and writers of a colonized culture must learn the language of the colonizer and take it back to their own community thus making themselves translators who occupy a manufactured, hybrid space between two cultures.