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ISBN-10: 0199273979

ISBN-13: 9780199273973

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephanie Newell

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West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism.
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Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Stephanie Newell is Smuts Memorial Research Fellow in African Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana (just approved for IUP co-pub with Manchester UP), Ghanaian Popular Fiction (Currey; Ohio, 2000), and editor of Images of African and Caribbean Women: Migration, Displacement, Diaspora (Centre for Commonwealth Studies, 1996), Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic (Centre for Commonweatlh Studies, 1995), and Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and Literature in West Africa (Zed Books, 1997).

Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?
Negritude
Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature
Oral Literatures
Lost and Found in Translation
iThings Fall Apart/i: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-Scape
Popular Literature
iGriots/i with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s
Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing
Marxism and West African Literature
The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'
'Queering' West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Veronique Tadjo
Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory