LEADER 02451nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910784831503321 005 20230810221526.0 010 $a0-19-772299-7 010 $a1-280-76041-9 010 $a0-19-535881-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000409505 035 $a(EBL)430966 035 $a(OCoLC)252640004 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099842 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127550 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099842 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019087 035 $a(PQKB)11364226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL430966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273129 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL76041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430966 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000409505 100 $a20001024d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe African imagination $eliterature in Africa & the Black diaspora /$fF. Abiola Irele 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-19-508618-X 311 0 $a0-19-508619-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Hampate? Ba?'s: The Fortunes of Wangrin; 6. Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's: Monne?, outrages et de?fis; 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; Index 606 $aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zAfrica 606 $aAfrican diaspora 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a809/.896 676 $a820.996 700 $aIrele$b Abiola$0658806 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784831503321 996 $aThe African imagination$93747146 997 $aUNINA