TY  - BOOK
AU  - Killam,G.D.
TI  - Literature of Africa
SN  - 0313319014 :
AV  - PL8010 .K53 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Greenwood Press
KW  - African literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -