The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora /
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Author / Creator: | Irele, Abiola. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | African literature -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Africa. African diaspora. Littérature africaine -- Histoire et critique. Littérature et société -- Afrique. Africains à l'étranger. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. African diaspora. African literature. Literature and society. Letterkunde. Diaspora. Africa. Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178136 |
Table of Contents:
- The African imagination
- Orality, literacy, and African literature
- African letters: the making of a tradition
- Dimensions of African discourse
- Study in ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's The fortunes of Wangrin
- Narrative, history and the African imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnè, outrages et défis
- The crisis of cultural memory in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
- Return of the native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks
- A national voice: the poetry and plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
- Parables of the African condition: the new realism in African fiction.