The growth of African literature : twenty-five years after Dakar and Fourah Bay / edited by Edris Makward, Thelma Ravell-Pinto & Aliko Songolo.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • French
Εdition
1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed.
Published/​Created
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 1998.
Description
314 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Notes
    Papers presented at the 15th annual Meeting of the African Literature Association which was held Mar. 20-23, 1989, Dakar, Senegal.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Language note
    English and French.
    Contents
    • Palm Oil with which Swahili Words are Eaten: Use of Proverbs in Modern Swahili Literature / Elena Zubkova Bertoncini
    • Traditional Oral Aesthetics in the Modern African Novel: Obinkaram Echewa's The Land's Lord / Phanuel Egejuru
    • The Modern African Poet and Traditional African Imagery / Chika Nwankwo
    • Marxism and African Literature: A Survey of Developments / Georg M. Gugelberger
    • Flies on the Meat: Cultural Poetics and the Study of African Literature / Louis Tremaine
    • Lamine Senghor (1889-1927), Precurseur de la Prose Nationaliste Negro-Africaine / Guy O. Midiohouan
    • Litterature Africaine et Identite(s) Maghrebine(s) / Albert Gerard
    • L'Afrique des Independances: Espoir ou Deception? Ahmadou Kourouma, Les Soleils des Independances et Mouloud Mammeri / Mildred Mortimer
    • From Tamango to Thiaroye
    • The Revolution Back on Course? / Fredric Michelman
    • Deux Non-Classiques de la Litterature Africaine: V.Y. Mudimbe, L'Ecart et Boris Boubacar Diop, Le Temps de Tamango / George Lang
    • La Representation du corps feminin chez les romancieres negro-africaines d'expression francaise / Anny-Claire Jaccard
    • Modalites de la signification litteraire chez Mariama Ba et Aminata Sow Fall / Sada Niang
    • Sony Labou Tansi et Abdelkebir Khatibi: Ma langue ou la sienne? / Edris Makward
    • Post-Negritude? / Aliko Songolo
    • Nigerian Dramatic Literature: The Examples of Femi Osofisan and Tunde Fatunde / Awam D. Amkpa
    • Comedy in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala / Roger A. Berger
    • Sur les voies de la fiction: La Voix narrative dans l'oeuvre de Mongo Beti / Patricia-Pia Celerier
    • Hard Times in an African Eden: Aminata Sow Fall's L'Appel des arenes / Heather Henderson
    • Mariama Ba: Parallels, Convergence and Interior Space / Obioma Nnaemeka
    • Bessie Head's Serowe: The African Village as Cultural Crossroads / Daniel Gover
    • Comparative Aesthetic: Buchi Emecheta and Toni Morrison / Thelma M. Ravell-Pinto
    • "Only the Shorter Companion": Problems of Resources in Teaching Two of Wole Soyinka's Plays / James Gibbs
    • The Animal Trickster as Political Satirist and Social Dissident: An Analysis of Leuk-the-Hare in Birago Diop's Tales of Amadou Koumba and Br'er Rabbit in the Afro-American Folk Tradition / Joyce Hope-Scott
    • The Image of Africa in North American Children's Literature / Deborah Allen
    • The Orishas: African Deities in Cuban Literature / Robert Lima
    • African Poetics and the New World Dance Poem: Rereading Edward Kamau Brathwaite / Mark W. Andrews
    • African Continuities and Caribbean Definitions in Caribbean Literature: The Literary Explorations of Harris, Lamming and Brathwaite / Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
    ISBN
    • 0865436584 ((cloth))
    • 9780865436589 ((cloth))
    • 0865436592 ((paper))
    • 9780865436596 ((paper))
    LCCN
    98010640
    OCLC
    38216308
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