African Imagination Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

Name: African Imagination Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780195086188

ISBN-10: 019508618X

ISBN-13: 9780195086188

Edition: 2001

Authors: F. Abiola Irele, F. Abiola Irele

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This collection of essays by one of Africa's leading scholars examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context. Here F. Abiola Irele presents probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hapae Ba, and Amadou Kourouma, among others. In addition to discussing texts central to the evolving canon of African literature, The African Imagination addresses both the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West.

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




The African Imagination



Orality, Literacy, and African Literature



African Letters: The Making of a Tradition



Dimensions of African Discourse



Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampate Ba's The Fortunes of Wangrin



Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monne, outrages et defis



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 Arican Fiction


Notes


Bibliography


Index