| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Special focus: Cultural icon: Michael J.C. Echeruo and the African academy / Obiwu -- The figuration of the Un : between African and world literature / Maik Nwosu -- In "the vortex of the expulsion" : the search for an Asian African imaginary / Rashna Singh -- Jacques Lacan in Africa : travel, Moroccan cemetery, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and other passions of theory / Obiwu -- (Re)defining the self through trauma in West African postcolonial short fiction / Bojana Coulibaly -- African postcolonial imagination and the moral challenges of our times / Chielozona Eze -- Survivalist autobiographies : the struggles of African Muslim women / Glen Bush -- Rebellion as a narrative strategy in southern African women's writing / Kanchana Ugbabe -- Rewriting human rights : gender, violence, and freedom in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Heather Hewett -- Dialogism, African poetics, and contemporary Nigerian poetry in English / Sule Egya -- Confronting politics through history : a reading of the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and John Edgar Wideman / Dul Johnson -- Special report: the Michael J.C. Echeruo valedictory symposium / Maik Nwosu and Obi Nwakanma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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African literature (English)
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Echeruo, Michael J. C., honouree.
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Obiwu, editor.
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Nwosu, Maik, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780815653103 |
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0815653107 |
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