Description |
xxi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. The African Imagination -- 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature -- 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition -- 4. Dimensions of African Discourse -- 5. Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampate Ba's The Fortunes of Wangrin -- 6. Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monne, outrages et defis -- 7. The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- 8. Return of the Native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks -- 9. A National Voice: The Poetry and Plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo -- 10. Parables of the African Condition: The New Realism in African Fiction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index |
Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- Africa.
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African diaspora.
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LC no. |
00052417 |
ISBN |
019508618X cloth acid-free paper |
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0195086198 paper |
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