Issues in African Literature
by Nnolim, E.
The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and cr…
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- Full title :Issues in African Literature.
Summary
The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic i.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Malthouse Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9788422365, 9789788422365
- oclc:ocn952751339
- LC Classification:PL8010 .N384 2010
- Dewey Decimal:809.869
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African iterature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980s.
11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover.
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