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The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora

Author: Abiola Irele
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Abiola Irele
ISBN: 019508618X 9780195086188 0195086198 9780195086195
OCLC Number: 45363918
Description: xxi, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The African imagination --
Orality, literacy, and African literature --
African letters: the making of a tradition --
Dimensions of African discourse --
Study in ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's The fortunes of Wangrin --
Narrative, history and the African imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnè, outrages et défis --
The crisis of cultural memory in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart --
Return of the native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks --
A national voice: the poetry and plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo --
Parables of the African condition: the new realism in African fiction.
Responsibility: F. Abiola Irele.
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