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West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell



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Autore: Newell Stephanie <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: West African literatures [[electronic resource] ] : ways of reading / / Stephanie Newell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/966
Soggetto topico: West African literature (English) - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Africa, West Intellectual life
Africa, West In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: 17.76
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Négritude; 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
12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: West 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
Titolo autorizzato: West African literatures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-90573-5
0-19-153837-X
0-19-151523-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451450003321
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Serie: Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.