02922nam 22006972 450 991081620480332120240430181500.00-19-772299-71-280-76041-90-19-535881-310.1093/oso/9780195086188.001.0001(CKB)1000000000409505(EBL)430966(OCoLC)252640004(SSID)ssj0000099842(PQKBManifestationID)11127550(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099842(PQKBWorkID)10019087(PQKB)11364226(Au-PeEL)EBL430966(CaPaEBR)ebr10273129(CaONFJC)MIL76041(MiAaPQ)EBC430966(OCoLC)1406782839(StDuBDS)9780197722992(EXLCZ)99100000000040950520010731e20232001 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe African imagination literature in africa and the black diaspora /F. Abiola Irele1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2001.0-19-508618-X 0-19-508619-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 1. The African Imagination; 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature; 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition; 4. Dimensions of African Discourse; 5. Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's: The Fortunes of Wangrin; 6. Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's: Monnè, outrages et défis; 7. The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's: Things Fall Apart; 8. Return of the Native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks; 9. A National Voice: The Poetry and Plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo; 10. Parables of the African Condition: The New Realism in African Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; IndexF. Abiola Irele is an expert on the anglophone and francophone traditions in post-colonial African literature. This collection of his essays examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context.Oxford scholarship online.African literatureHistory and criticismAfrican diasporaLiteratureukslcAfrican literatureHistory and criticism.African diaspora.Literature.809/.896820.996Irele F. Abiola1734467StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910816204803321The African imagination4151466UNINA