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The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora / F. Abiola Irele.

Irele, Abiola. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 019508618X (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0195086198 (paper) :
  • Physical Description: xxi, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The African imagination -- Orality, literacy, and African literature -- African letters: the making of a tradition -- Dimensions of African discourse -- Study in ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's The fortunes of Wangrin -- Narrative, history and the African imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnè, outrages et défis -- The crisis of cultural memory in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- Return of the native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks -- A national voice: the poetry and plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo -- Parables of the African condition: the new realism in African fiction.
Subject: African literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Africa.
African diaspora.

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