The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora /

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1. The African Imagination. 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature. 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition. 4. Dimensions of African Discourse. 5. A Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampate Ba's The Fortunes of Wangrin. 6. Narrative, History and the African Imagination: Amadou Kourouma&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irele, Abiola
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Temas:
African literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Africa.
African diaspora.
Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Afrique.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
African literature.
Literature and society.
Letterkunde.
Diaspora.
Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:1. The African Imagination. 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature. 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition. 4. Dimensions of African Discourse. 5. A Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampate Ba's The Fortunes of Wangrin. 6. Narrative, History and the African Imagination: Amadou Kourouma's Monne, outrages et defis. 7. The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. 8. The 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 Fict.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index.
ISBN:9780195358810
0195358813
9780195086188
019508618X
9780195086195
0195086198
1280760419
9781280760419

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