LEADER 02922nam 22006972 450 001 9910816204803321 005 20240430181500.0 010 $a0-19-772299-7 010 $a1-280-76041-9 010 $a0-19-535881-3 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195086188.001.0001 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(OCoLC)1406782839 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197722992 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000409505 100 $a20010731e20232001 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe African imagination $eliterature in africa and the black diaspora /$fF. Abiola Irele 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2001. 311 0 $a0-19-508618-X 311 0 $a0-19-508619-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references 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 330 8 $aF. Abiola Irele is an expert on the anglophone and francophone traditions in post-colonial African literature. This collection of his essays examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican diaspora 606 $aLiterature$2ukslc 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 615 7$aLiterature. 676 $a809/.896 676 $a820.996 700 $aIrele$b F. Abiola$01734467 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816204803321 996 $aThe African imagination$94151466 997 $aUNINA