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. Resistance Literature by Barbara HarlowĪbout Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlowīarbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (New York: Methuen Press, 1987)
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