Print version: McKenzie, Earl. Philosophy in the West Indian novel. Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2009 xi, 152 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9789766402150
Includes bibliographical references 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.