03271nam 2200661 a 450 991096601070332120240405184627.09786613905833978128359338012835933869789788422822978842282997897884228089788422802(CKB)2670000000241027(EBL)1919388(SSID)ssj0000941843(PQKBManifestationID)11502211(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941843(PQKBWorkID)10971225(PQKB)10542571(Au-PeEL)EBL1919388(CaPaEBR)ebr10593906(CaONFJC)MIL390583(OCoLC)817811923(PPN)18734373X(FR-PaCSA)88825830(MiAaPQ)EBC1919388(FRCYB88825830)88825830(EXLCZ)99267000000024102720120907d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIssues in African literature /Charles E. Nnolim1st ed.Lagos [Nigeria] Malthouse Press Ltd.c20101 online resource (272 p.)Includes index.9789788422365 9788422365 Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back coverThe multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic iAfrican literatureHistory and criticismAfrican literatureHistory and criticism.809.869Nnolim Charles E657660ebrary, IncMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966010703321Issues in African literature4338854UNINA