The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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English
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1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction: perspectives on the African novel / F. Abiola Irele -- The oral-literate interface / Olakunle George -- Chinua Achebe and the African novel / Dan Izevbaye -- Protest and resistance / Barbara Harlow -- The Afrikaans novel / Christopher Warnes -- The African novel in Arabic / Shaden M. T...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover...
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The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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Cambridge companions to literature
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English
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74VKVw6oMy8b
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1-139-00260-0
1-139-80127-9
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809.30096
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991023962545802626
