TY - BOOK AU - McKenzie,Earl TI - Philosophy in the West Indian novel SN - 9789766402150 AV - PR9214 .M35 2009 U1 - 809/MCK PY - 2009/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica PB - University of the West Indies Press KW - West Indian fiction (English) KW - History and criticism KW - Philosophy in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-143) and index; Aims of education: historicism and In the castle of my skin -- The meaning of life and Black lightning -- The inner radiance of the shelf in Palace of the peacock -- Knowledge and human understanding in A house for Mr Biswas -- Existentialism and The children of Sisyphus -- Tragic vision in Wide Sargasso Sea -- African conceptions of a person and Myal -- The law of karma in Sastra -- The moralty of reparations in Salt -- Plato versus Kincaid?: A reading of The autobiography of my mother ER -