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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 the Paperback edition.
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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 the Paperback edition.
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--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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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!
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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!
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- The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town by Amos Tutuola on 10 pages
- Things Fall Apart: A Novel 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
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- 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 Ca 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
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