African literature:an anthology of criticism and theory

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Group Author: Olaniyan Tejumola; Quayson Ato
Published: Blackwell Pub.,
Publisher Address: Malden, MA Oxford
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xix, 774 p.: ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 140511200X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405112000 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1405112018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405112017 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: I400
CLC: I400.9
I400.6
Call Number: I400.6/A258
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Backgrounds. Africa and writing / Alain Ricard -- Sub-Saharan Africa's literary history in a nutshell / Albert S. Gerard -- Politics, culture, and literary form / Bernth Lindfors -- African literature in Portuguese / Russell G. Hamilton -- North African writing / Anissa Talahite -- A continent and its literatures in French / Jonathan Ngate -- African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi -- African literature: myth or reality? / V. Y. Mudimbe -- pt. 2. Orality, literacy, and the interface. Africa and orality/ Liz Gunner -- Orality, literacy, and African literature / Abiol