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The African novel and the modernist tradition

Author: David I Ker
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, ©2000.
Series: Studies in African and African-American culture, vol. 12.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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