The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership /

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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
Subjects:
1800-1999
African fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
African fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Roman africain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman africain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
African fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Manufacturing the African novel : the Makerere writers and questions of language, identity, and ownership
  • No shrubbing in the English metaphysical empire, please : a question of language
  • Amos Tutuola : creating the African literary bogeyman
  • Africa's missing literary history : from A.C. Jordan's Child of two worlds to Noviolet Bulawayo's fractured multiple worlds
  • Manufacturing the African literary canon : costs and opportunities
  • Toward a rooted transnational African literature : politics of image and naming.

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