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ALT 14 Insiders & Outsiders: African Literature Today: (African Literature Today)

ALT 14 Insiders & Outsiders: African Literature Today: (African Literature Today)


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This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside influences on African writers. This relationship raises complex problems such as which language to write in, and the representation or misrepresentation of the continent. Kole Omotoso gives a trans-Saharan view of Africa, Funso Aiyejina a West Indian perspective highlighting the work of George Lamming and Denis Williams, and Katherine Frank examines the relevance of feminist criticism to the African novel. Other contributors compare and contrast the works of European, American, Caribbean and African writers: Graham Greene and Dadie; Soyinka and Beckett; Laye, Lamming and Wright; Camus and Cesaire; Yeats and J.P. Clark; Equiano and Defoe; Ernest Gaines and Oyono.



Table of Contents:
Editorial - Eldred Jones Graham Greene travels in Africa & Dadié travels in Europe [Marion A.Thomas] A touch of the absurd: Soyinka & Beckett [Catherine Obianuju Acholonu] Laye, Lamming & Wright: Mother & son [Fritz H. Pointer] Feminist criticism & the African novel [Katherine Frank] Albert Camus, Aimé Césaire & the tragedy of revolution [John Conteh-Morgan] Africa under Western eyes: Updike's The Coup & Other Fantasies [Jack B. Moore] On the poetry of war: Yeats & J.P.Clark [Obi Maduakor] Olaudah Equiano & the tradition of Defoe [S.E. Ogude] The black pseudo-autobiographical novel: Miss Jane Pittman & Houseboy [Bede M. Ssensalo] Trans-Saharan views: Mutually negative portrayals [Kole Omotoso] The backward glance: Lamming's Season of Adventure and Williams' Other Leopards Charles Dickens & the Zulus [Bernth Lindfors] Reviews include: Wole Soyinka's Aké: The Years of Childhood, P.A. Egejure's Black Writers: White Audience. A Critical Approach to African Literature & James Gibbs' Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780852555149
  • Publisher: James Currey
  • Publisher Imprint: James Currey
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: African Literature Today
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0852555148
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 1984
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 254 gr


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