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UNINA9910967922003321 |
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Titolo |
Texts, tasks, and theories / / edited by Tobias Robert Klein, Ulrike Auga & Viola Pruschenk |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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94-012-0564-7 |
1-4356-4461-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Matatu ; ; no. 35 |
Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 3 |
Humboldt contributions ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KleinTobias Robert |
AugaUlrike |
PrüschenkViola |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African literature - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
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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. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Texts, Tasks, and Theories; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTICE; INTRODUCTION; LANGUAGE, MODERNISM, AND MODERNITY; NEW READINGS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; AFRICAN LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: IDENTITY, DISSIDENCE, AND CULTURAL PRACTICE; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS; NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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African literary theory has recently gained immensely from an emerging multitude of perspectives and scholarly approaches. This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status. The first section "Language, Modernity and |
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