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Harlow’s opening chapter, “The Theoretical-Historical Context,” suggests what is perhaps the most crucial of her working assumptions - that “the theory of resistance literature is in its politics” (p. The questions of for whom one writes and to what end underlie Harlow’s own work as she points to the very similar questions that pervade the work of the writers and texts discussed in her study. She is clearly as concerned with the political and the historical contexts and intentions of the text and author as she is with usually more narrowly defined cultural or literary issues. The structural deference of Resistance Literature to the literary resistance text is one of the distinguishing features of Harlow’s critical approach. Resistance Literature also argues for the crucial political significance of literary texts and, by extension, for the necessity of an informed political commentary on those texts. Resistance Literature is a wide-ranging and impressive critical study of the literatures of contemporary “Third World” liberation movements as they confront and alter the literary and political categories of the “West.” It is not only an introduction to Third World literature, although that function is ably accomplished by Harlow’s text. Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York: Methuen Press, 1987)
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