03383nam 2200637 a 450 991078483700332120230828233500.01-383-04432-51-280-90573-50-19-153837-X0-19-151523-X(CKB)1000000000406507(EBL)431149(OCoLC)253008567(SSID)ssj0000270324(PQKBManifestationID)11192520(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270324(PQKBWorkID)10262181(PQKB)10231978(Au-PeEL)EBL431149(CaPaEBR)ebr10177916(CaONFJC)MIL90573(MiAaPQ)EBC431149(EXLCZ)99100000000040650720060209d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWest African literatures[electronic resource] ways of reading /Stephanie NewellOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (286 p.)Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in EnglishDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-929887-4 0-19-927397-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.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, Postcolonialism12 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; IndexWest 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 studOxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.West African literature (English)History and criticismAfrica, WestIntellectual lifeAfrica, WestIn literatureWest African literature (English)History and criticism.820.9/96617.76bclNewell Stephanie1968-662470MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784837003321West African literatures3747196UNINA