03162nam 2200721 a 450 991081364710332120200520144314.01-383-04432-51-280-90573-50-19-153837-X0-19-151523-X10.1093/oso/9780199298877.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1406785825(StDuBDS)9781383044324(OCoLC)64288904(FINmELB)ELB162445(EXLCZ)99100000000040650720060209d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWest African literatures ways of reading /Stephanie Newell1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (286 p.)Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in EnglishFormerly CIP.UkPreviously issued in print: 2006.0-19-929887-4 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; IndexStephanie Newell provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field of West African literature, especially in relation to postcolonialism.Oxford 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 Stephanie1968-662470MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813647103321West African literatures4082669UNINA