1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451450003321

Autore

Newell Stephanie <1968->

Titolo

West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90573-5

0-19-153837-X

0-19-151523-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English

Classificazione

17.76

Disciplina

820.9/966

Soggetti

West African literature (English) - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Africa, West Intellectual life

Africa, West In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Négritude; 3 Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature; 4 Oral Literatures; 5 Lost and Found in Translation; 6 Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-scape; 7 Popular Literature; 8 Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s; 9 Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing; 10 Marxism and West African Literature; 11 The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism

12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in



Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud

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Record Nr.

UNISA996202958203316

Titolo

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control : a publication of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, c1985-

ISSN

1525-8955

Soggetti

Ultrasonics

Ferroelectric crystals

Radio frequency

Sound

Radio

Biomedical Engineering

Radio Waves

Static Electricity

Ultrasons

Ferroélectricité

Changeurs de fréquence

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed