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Writing Africa in the short story /
African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the African short story is now given the attention it deserves. Cont...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
James Currey,
2013.
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| Colección: | African literature today ;
31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Dedication: Chinua Achebe Joins the Ancestors; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Editorial Article 'Once Upon a Time Begins a Story ... '; Articles; 'Real Africa' / ' Which Africa?': The Critique of Mimetic Realism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Short Fiction; Writing Apartheid: Miriam Tlali's Soweto Stories; Articulations of Home & Muslim Identity in the Short Stories of Leila Aboulela; Ugandan Women in Contest with Reality: Mary K. Okurutu's A Woman's Voice & the Women's Future.
- Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National ProjectWidowhood
- Institutionalized Dead Weight to Personal Identity & Dignity: A Reading of Ifeoma Okoye's The Trial & Other Stories; Feminist Censure of Marriage in Islamic Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories; Diaspora Identities in Short Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta; Exposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex la Guma's Short Stories; Locating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country?
- Mohammed Dib's Short Stories on the Memory of AlgeriaAma Ata Aidoo's Short Stories: Empowering the African Girl-Child; Ama Ata Aidoo: An interview for ALT; Reviews; Amir Taj Elsir. The Grub Hunter; Gordon Collier. ed. Focus on Nigeria: Literature and Culture; Dominique Chancé and Alain Ricard (eds). Études littéraires africaines: Traductions postcoloniales; Laura Murphy. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature; Eldred Durosimi Jones with Marjorie Jones. The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags.