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Literature of Africa / Douglas Killam.
Series: Literature as windows to world culturesPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.Description: xvii, 204 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0313319014 :
- PL8010 .K53 2004
Contents:
Summary: Provides an introduction to 10 of Africa's best-known writers, with full discussions of 14 of their works with special focus on the historical and cultural issues that inform them.
Africa and Europe -- A Selected History of West African Literature -- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) / Chinua Achebe -- The Bride Price (1976) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) / Buchi Emecheta -- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) / Ayi Kwei Armah -- So Long a Letter (1981) / Miriama Ba -- God's Bits of Wood (1962) / Sembene Ousmane -- A Selected History of East African Literature -- A Grain of Wheat (1967) Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- A Selected History of South-Central African Literature -- A Selected History of South African Literature and Politics -- Burger's Daughter (1979) and The House Gun (1998) / Nadine Gordimer -- In the Fog of the Season's End (1972) and Time of the Butcherbird (1979) / Alex La Guma -- Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) / Alan Paton -- When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) / Bessie Head.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PL 8010 .K53 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 660712 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]) and index.
Africa and Europe -- A Selected History of West African Literature -- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) / Chinua Achebe -- The Bride Price (1976) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) / Buchi Emecheta -- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) / Ayi Kwei Armah -- So Long a Letter (1981) / Miriama Ba -- God's Bits of Wood (1962) / Sembene Ousmane -- A Selected History of East African Literature -- A Grain of Wheat (1967) Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- A Selected History of South-Central African Literature -- A Selected History of South African Literature and Politics -- Burger's Daughter (1979) and The House Gun (1998) / Nadine Gordimer -- In the Fog of the Season's End (1972) and Time of the Butcherbird (1979) / Alex La Guma -- Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) / Alan Paton -- When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) / Bessie Head.
Provides an introduction to 10 of Africa's best-known writers, with full discussions of 14 of their works with special focus on the historical and cultural issues that inform them.
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