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Reflections & retrospectives in African literature today /
This special issue is devoted to some of the pioneer voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: Bessie Head, Cyprian Ekwensi, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Flora Nwapa, Ousmane Sembene and Zulu Sofola. The contributors explore the development of these influential writers and their impac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY :
James Currey,
2012.
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| Colección: | African literature today ;
30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Editorial Article; Reflections & Retrospectives; Articles; Gender Politics, Home & Nation in Zulu Sofola's King Emene: Tragedy of a Rebellion; The Militant Writer in Sembène's Early Fiction: From Le Docker noir to L'Harmattan; Psychological Violence in Bessie Head's Maru & A Question of Power; Constructing the Destructive City: Representations of Lagos in Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City; History, Progress & Prospects in the Development of African Literature: A Tribute to Dennis Brutus.
- Dispelling the Myth of the 'Silent Woman': The Nigerian Igbo Woman in Flora Nwapa's Efuru (1966)Interrogating Dichotomies, Reconstructing Emancipation: Bessie Head's Vision on Gender Issues; Es'kia Mphahlele's Enduring Truth in Down Second Avenue; A Tribute to Cyprian O.D. Ekwensi (26 September 1921
- 4 November 2007): The Writer, the Man & His Era; Reviews; Jack Mapanje. And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night; Wilson Katiyo. Tsiga; Bernth Lindfors (ed.). The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography; Jane Katjavivi. Undisciplined Heart. Sarah Ladipo Manyika. In Dependence.
- Anne V. Adams (ed). Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural StudiesChinua Achebe. There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra; Backcover.