LEADER 03383nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910784837003321 005 20230828233500.0 010 $a1-383-04432-5 010 $a1-280-90573-5 010 $a0-19-153837-X 010 $a0-19-151523-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406507 035 $a(EBL)431149 035 $a(OCoLC)253008567 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270324 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192520 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270324 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10262181 035 $a(PQKB)10231978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431149 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10177916 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL90573 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431149 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406507 100 $a20060209d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWest African literatures$b[electronic resource] $eways of reading /$fStephanie Newell 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 1 $aOxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-929887-4 311 $a0-19-927397-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Ne?gritude; 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, Postcolonialism 327 $a12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Ve?ronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWest African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud 410 0$aOxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English. 606 $aWest African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life 607 $aAfrica, West$xIn literature 615 0$aWest African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/966 686 $a17.76$2bcl 700 $aNewell$b Stephanie$f1968-$0662470 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784837003321 996 $aWest African literatures$93747196 997 $aUNINA