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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature : looking inward /
Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- When an elephant rustles the bush
- Is a picture still worth a thousand words? from documentary to investigative realism: Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough
- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste: Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born
- On the politics of love: Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru
- Masking the infrastuctural frame: Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb)
- Conclusion: coming out of shadow: eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.