Title:
Africa writes back : the African writers series & the launch of African literature
Author:
Currey, James.
ISBN:
9781847015037
9781847015020
9780821418420
9780821418437
9781779220752
9781868144723
9789780812027
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Publication Information:
Oxford : James Currey, 2008.
Physical Description:
xxxi, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction: the establishment of African literature -- Publishing Chinua Achebe -- pt. 1. Writers from West Africa -- Nigeria -- Negritude from Senegal to Cameroun -- Magic & realism from Ghana, Thea Gambia & Sierra Leone -- pt. 2. Writers from East Africa -- Towards the oral & the popular in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania -- Publishing Ngugi -- pt. 3. Writers from the horn & north-eastern Africa -- Emperors in Ethiopa -- Publishing Nuruddin Farah -- Arab authors in Egypt & Sudan -- pt. 4. Writers from Sooth Africa -- Resistance in South Africa -- Publishing Alex la Guma -- Publishing Dennis Brutus -- Publishing Bessie Head -- Publishing Mazisi Kunene -- pt. 5. Writers from southern Africa -- Guns & guerrillas in Mozambique & Angola -- Zambia shall be free -- Death & detention in Malawi -- The struggle to become Zimbabwe -- Publishing Dambudzo Marechera.
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