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Subject(s)

• African literature (English)—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• African literature (English)—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

• Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- [Browse]

Series

• African literature today ; 27. [More in this series]
• African literature today ; 27 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple : the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Brenda Cooper
• Ambivalent inscriptions : women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou
• The interrupted dance : racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call me by my rightful name / Clement Abiaziem Okafor
• The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse on dit non / Sery Bailly
• Ngugi's Wizard of the crow : women as the voice of the people & the Western audience / Joseph McLaren
• The Ankh & Maat : symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan
• A new African youth novel in the era of HIV, AIDS : an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike
• The prison of Nigerian women : female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Florence Orabueze
• Manufacturing skin for Somala's history : Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar
• A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity : Tsitsi Dangarrembga's The book of Not & the Unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
• Coming to America : Ike Oguine's A squatter's tale & the Nigerian-African immigrant's narrative / Christopher Okonkwo
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Charles Nnolim.

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ISBN

• 9780852555729 (pbk. : James Currey)
• 0852555725 (pbk. : James Currey)
• 9789780813703 (pbk. : HEBN)
• 9780813705 (pbk. : HEBN)

OCLC

432407390

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