| Description |
1 online resource (xli, 423 pages) |
| Contents |
Africa and orality / Liz Gunner -- The folktale and its extensions / Kwesi Yankah -- Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / Sabra Webber -- Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / Lupenga Mphande -- African oral epics / Isidore Okpewho -- The oral tradition in the African diaspora / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / Keith Q. Warner -- Africa and writing / Alain Ricard -- Ethiopian literature / Teodros Kiros -- African literature in Arabic / Farida Abu-Haidar -- The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Africa and the European Renaissance / Sylvie Kandé -- The literature of slavery and abolition / Moira Ferguson -- Discourses of empire / Robert Eric Livingston -- African-language literatures of southern Africa / Daniel P. Kunene -- Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels / Ann Biersteker -- The emergence of written Hausa literature / Ousseina Alidou -- Literature in Yorubá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama / Karin Barber -- African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi -- The formative journals and institutions / Milton Krieger -- Literature in Afrikaans / Ampie Coetzee |
| Summary |
This history offers new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature. Chapters address the literature itself, in a variety of languages, regions and genres, the practices and conditions of its composition, and its complex relationship with African social and geopolitical history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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African literature -- History and criticism
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Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
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African literature
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Caribbean literature
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Literature -- Black authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Irele, Abiola
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Gikandi, Simon
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| ISBN |
9781139054638 |
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1139054635 |
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9780511467196 |
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0511467192 |
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9781139054638 |
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