In this illuminating analysis of African literature and the African writer's responsibility to society, the authors critique the dominant trends in contemporary African literature and literary criticism by highlighting the aims and techniques of such pan-African writers as Achebe, Senghor, Sembene, Maran, and Langston Hughes.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fantastic Brave Book,
By BORED by SOME Books (Syracuse, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Toward the Decolonization of African Literature (Paperback)
Who could believe that black men in this day and age could write a book that so boldly attacks the effects of White Supremacy as it relates to the brainwashing of Africans and the way in which they portray (and often BETRAY) their own society and their own history.
This book is absolutely magnificent. I could not get over the powerful but tragic truths that are contained here. If I could give it 10 stars, I would. It's excellent!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
At this point in history it is Africa's mission to intensify its decolonization and pursue it into liberation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consistent moral attitude, eurocentric critics, eurocentric criticism, artistic incompetence, narrative texture, favored wife, versified form, intensional definition, undeveloped characters, moonlight play, sociological matters, new yam, shorter narratives, extensional definition, nationalist consciousness, language criteria, waste work, oral medium, colonial languages, public themes, prose tradition, oral tale, sprung rhythm, narrative rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wole Soyinka, Things Fall Apart, Path of Thunder, Adrian Roscoe, Christopher Okigbo, Humpty Dumpty, West African, Jagua Nana, Song of Lawino, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Chinua Achebe, Gerald Moore, Joyce Cary, Lenrie Peters, The Waste Land, United States, Eustace Palmer, Frank Aig-Imoukhuede, Great Tradition, Michael Echeruo, The Interpreters, Amos Tutuola, Birago Diop, Charles Larson, Daniel Biebuyck New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
At this point in history it is Africa's mission to intensify its decolonization and pursue it into liberation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consistent moral attitude, eurocentric critics, eurocentric criticism, artistic incompetence, narrative texture, favored wife, versified form, intensional definition, undeveloped characters, moonlight play, sociological matters, new yam, shorter narratives, extensional definition, nationalist consciousness, language criteria, waste work, oral medium, colonial languages, public themes, prose tradition, oral tale, sprung rhythm, narrative rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wole Soyinka, Things Fall Apart, Path of Thunder, Adrian Roscoe, Christopher Okigbo, Humpty Dumpty, West African, Jagua Nana, Song of Lawino, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Chinua Achebe, Gerald Moore, Joyce Cary, Lenrie Peters, The Waste Land, United States, Eustace Palmer, Frank Aig-Imoukhuede, Great Tradition, Michael Echeruo, The Interpreters, Amos Tutuola, Birago Diop, Charles Larson, Daniel Biebuyck New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 96
books:
See all 96 books this book cites
59
books
cite this book:
See all 59 books citing this book
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town by Amos Tutuola on 10 pages
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe on 7 pages
- Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola on 5 pages
- The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot on 4 pages
- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot on 4 pages
See all 96 books this book cites
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Elleke Boehmer on page 170, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient Songs Set Ablaze by Sandra L. Richards in Front Matter, page 91, and Back Matter
- LA Route: Realite Et Representation Dans L'Oeuvre De Wole Soyinka (Cross/Cultures) (Cross/Cultures) by Christiane Fioupou on page 320, and Back Matter
- Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject by Carole Boyce-Davies in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) by Andrew Hammond on page 81, and Back Matter
See all 59 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
