Philosophy in the West Indian Novel Book

Introduction 1

1 Aims of Education: Historicism and In the Castle of My Skin 6

2 The Meaning of Life and Black Lightning 17

3 The Inner Radiance of the Self in Palace of the Peacock 26

4 Knowledge and Human Understanding in A House for Mr. Biswas 43

5 Existentialism and The Children of Sisyphus 54

6 Tragic Vision in Wide Sargasso Sea 56

7 African Conceptions of a Person and Myal 73

8 The Law of Karma in Sastra 87

9 The Morality of Reparations in Salt 98

10 Plato versus Kincaid? A Reading of The Autobiography of My Mother 111

Conclusion 122

Appendix The Authors 131

References 137

Index 145