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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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Language
English
French
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1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed.
Published/Created
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 1998.
Description
314 p. ; 23 cm.
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PL8010 .G76 1998
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African literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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African Literature Association. Meeting (15th : 1989 : Dakar, Senegal)
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Makward, Edris
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Ravell-Pinto, Thelma
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Songolo, Aliko, 1945-
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Series
Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 3.
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Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 3
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
0865436584 ((cloth))
9780865436589 ((cloth))
0865436592 ((paper))
9780865436596 ((paper))
LCCN
98010640
OCLC
38216308
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