Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English: Vol. 1

World Writers in English: Chinua Achebe to V.S. Naipaul
By Jay Parini
I can't have anybody in a room without describing all the furniture ” ( pp . 256-257 ) . ... partially in the water , and describes its dead eye as a pair of household items : “ An orange stuffed in a black silk stocking ” ( p . 37 ) .
World Writers in English
By Jay Parini
O Babylon ! had been staged in London in 1988 ( when Walcott won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry ) , and in 1989 perhaps his most important American play , The Ghost Dance , confronting the Amerindian genocide and the shame of the New ...