Thread in the Loom : Essays on African Literature and Culture

Name: Thread in the Loom : Essays on African Literature and Culture
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ISBN: 9780865438651

ISBN-10: 086543865X

ISBN-13: 9780865438651

Edition: 2002

Authors: Niyi Osundare

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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Africa World Press
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Preface	p. 1
Freedom and the Creative Space	p. 5
Stubborn Thread in the Loom of Being: The Writer as Memory of the World	p. 13
Squaring up to Africa's Future: A Writer's Reflections on the Predicaments of a Continent	p. 21
Of Prizes and Messiahs	p. 33
African Literature and the Crisis of Post-Structuralist Theorising	p. 39
Singers of a New Dawn: Nigerian Literature From the Second Generation On	p. 59
Behold the Feast; but Where's the Guest?	p. 83
The Longest Day	p. 89
The Travails of Efficiency	p. 95
Ibadan	p. 105
Yoruba Thought, English Words: A Poet's Journey Through the Tunnel of Two Tongues	p. 115
Thresholds and Millennial Crossings	p. 133
The Possibilities of Hope	p. 143
Index	p. 147
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