The African imagination : literature in africa and the black diaspora / / F. Abiola Irele [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Irele F. Abiola
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages)
• Disciplina: 809/.896; 820.996
• Soggetto topico: African literature - History and criticism; African diaspora; Literature
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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 Hampaté Bâ's: The Fortunes of Wangrin; 6. Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's: Monnè, outrages et défis; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: F. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The African imagination
• ISBN: 0-19-772299-7; 1-280-76041-9; 0-19-535881-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816204803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.