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1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Contents |
""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction: Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature""; ""Part I General Perspectives""; ""Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study""; ""Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example""; ""Part II Perspectives on Fiction""; ""Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta�s The Joys of Motherhood"" |
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""Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling""""Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye�s Grandma�s Sun""; ""Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera�s Poetics of Trauma""; ""Carl de Souza�s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city""; ""A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe�s Things Fall Apart""; ""Part III Perspectives on Orature and Poetry""; ""Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles""; ""On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry"" |
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""New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature�s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music""""Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta�s Dhiang� Othuwowa gi Chuo""; ""Chronotopes of the (Post- ) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry""; ""Metapoesis and �the Art of Chameleons� in Steve Chimombo�s Poetry""; ""Part IV Perspectives on Drama and Theatre""; ""Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake�s The Rape of Michelle"" |
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""Figuration of �troubled motherhood� and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda�s Plays1""""Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe�s In the Chest of a Woman""; ""Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimi�s The Gods are Not to Blame""; ""Contributors"" |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- History and criticism
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African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Literary style.
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African literature
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African literature (English)
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Literary style
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Obiero, Ogone John
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West-Pavlov, Russell
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| ISBN |
9789401207553 |
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9401207550 |
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