Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages) |
Series |
Literature as windows to world cultures, 1543-9968 |
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Literature as windows to world cultures. 1543-9968
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Contents |
Selected history of West African literature -- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) / Chinua Achebe -- Bride Tree (1976) and Joys of Motherhood (1979) / Buchi Emecheta -- Beautiful Ones are not yet Born (1968) / Ayi Kwei Armah -- So Long a Letter (1981) / Miriama Ba -- God's Bits of Wood (1962) / Sembene Ousmane -- Selected history of East African literature -- Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Selected history of South-Central African literature -- Selected history of South African literature and politics -- Burger's Daughter (1979) and House Gun (1988) / Nadine Gordimer -- In the Fog of the Season's End (1972), and Time of the Butcherbird (1979) / Alex La Guma -- Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) / Alan Paton -- When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) / Bessie Head |
Summary |
Looks at the work of ten African authors, including Chinua Achebe, Miriama Ba, Nadine Gordimer, and Alan Paton |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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African literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004013212 |
ISBN |
0313058210 |
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9780313058219 |
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1282408984 |
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9781282408982 |
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9786612408984 |
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6612408987 |
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