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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David I Ker |
| ISBN: | 0820426482 9780820426488 0820440841 9780820440842 |
| OCLC Number: | 45811802 |
| Description: | x, 223 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Modernism and the African Novel -- 2. The Dramatised Perspective: Henry James, The Tragic Muse; Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters -- 3. The Inward Perspective: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Virginia Woolf, The Waves; Kofi Awoonor, This Earth, My Brother -- 4. The Multiple Perspective I: Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood -- 5. The Multiple Perspective II: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Ayi Kwei Armah, Why Are We So Blest? -- 6. The Communal Perspective: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God; Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons; Gabriel Okara, The Voice -- 7. Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Studies in African and African-American culture, vol. 12. |
| Responsibility: | David I. Ker. |
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