LEADER 03271nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910966010703321 005 20240405184627.0 010 $a9786613905833 010 $a9781283593380 010 $a1283593386 010 $a9789788422822 010 $a9788422829 010 $a9789788422808 010 $a9788422802 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241027 035 $a(EBL)1919388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000941843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11502211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10971225 035 $a(PQKB)10542571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1919388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593906 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL390583 035 $a(OCoLC)817811923 035 $a(PPN)18734373X 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88825830 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1919388 035 $a(FRCYB88825830)88825830 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241027 100 $a20120907d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIssues in African literature /$fCharles E. Nnolim 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLagos [Nigeria] $cMalthouse Press Ltd.$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9789788422365 311 08$a9788422365 327 $aCover; 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's 327 $a11. 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 cover 330 $aThe 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 i 606 $aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.869 700 $aNnolim$b Charles E$0657660 712 02$aebrary, Inc 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966010703321 996 $aIssues in African literature$94338854 997 $aUNINA