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UNINA9910784837003321 |
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Autore |
Newell Stephanie <1968-> |
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Titolo |
West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-04432-5 |
1-280-90573-5 |
0-19-153837-X |
0-19-151523-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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West African literature (English) - History and criticism |
Africa, West Intellectual life |
Africa, West In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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