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Autore: | Irele F. Abiola |
Titolo: | The African imagination : literature in africa and the black diaspora / / F. Abiola Irele |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 |
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