African literature and its times
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Gale Group,
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Publisher Address: | Detroit |
Publication Dates: | c2000. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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World literature and its times ; v. 2 |
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Carrier Form: | xlv, 544 p.: ill. ; 29 cm. |
ISBN: | 0787637270 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I400 |
CLC: | I400.065 |
Call Number: | I400.65/M913 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. CONTENTS BY TITLE: African laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe / Doris Lessing -- Beautiful ones are not yet born, The / Ayi Kwei Armah -- Burger's daughter / Nadine Gordimer -- Chaka / Thomas Mofolo -- Concubine, The / Elechu Amadi -- Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton -- Dark child, The / Camara Laye -- Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Dilemma of a ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Dry white season, A / André Brink -- Efuru / Flora Nwapa -- Egyptian childhood, An / Taha Husayn -- Epic of Son-Jara, The / as told by Fa-Digi Sisòkò -- Equiano's travels : the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African / Olaudah Equiano -- Famished road, The / Ben Okri -- Fantasia : an Algerian cavalcade / Assia Djebar -- "Farahat's republic" / Yusuf Idris -- God's bits of wood / Ousmane Sembène -- Houseboy / Ferdinand Oyono -- Ibn Battuta in Black Africa / Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta -- Jagua Nana / Cyprian Ekwensi -- Joys of motherhood, The / Buchi Emecheta -- Last duty, The / Isidore Okpewho -- Maze of justice, The / Tawfig al-Hakim -- Midaqq Alley / Najib Mahfuz -- Mine boy / Peter Abrahams -- Mission to Kala / Mongo Beti -- Nedjma / Kateb Yacine -- Nervous conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Oil man of Obange, The / John Munonye -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Palm-wine drunkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Deads' Town, The / Amos Tutuola -- Pillar of salt, The / Albert Memmi -- "Rivonia Trial Speech, The" / Nelson Mandela -- Sand child, The / Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Season of migration to the North / Toyeb Salih -- So long a letter / Mariama Bā -- Song of Lawino and Song of God / Okot p'Bitek -- Story of an African farm, The / Olive Schreiner -- Sweet and sour milk / Nuruddin Farah -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Valley song / Athol Fugard -- Waiting for the Barbarians / J.M. Coetzee -- Walk in the night, A / Alex La Guma -- We killed Mangy-Dog and other Mozambique stories / Luis Bernardo Honwana -- Weep not, child / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- When rain clouds gather / Bessie Head -- Woman at Zero Point / Nawal El Saadawi -- Wretched of the Earth, The / Frantz Fanon -- Yaka / Pepetela. |