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New novels in African literature today : a review / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu ... [and others]
Penn Museum Library PR9344 .N49 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African literature today ; 27.
- African literature today
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 173 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ibadan, Nigeria : HEBN ; Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2010.
- Contents:
- Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple : the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Brenda Cooper
- Ambivalent inscriptions : women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou
- The interrupted dance : racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call me by my rightful name / Clement Abiaziem Okafor
- The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse on dit non / Sery Bailly
- Ngugi's Wizard of the crow : women as the voice of the people & the Western audience / Joseph McLaren
- The Ankh & Maat : symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan
- A new African youth novel in the era of HIV, AIDS : an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike
- The prison of Nigerian women : female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Florence Orabueze
- Manufacturing skin for Somala's history : Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar
- A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity : Tsitsi Dangarrembga's The book of Not & the Unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
- Coming to America : Ike Oguine's A squatter's tale & the Nigerian-African immigrant's narrative / Christopher Okonkwo
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Charles Nnolim.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780852555729
- 0852555725
- 9789780813703
- 9780813705
- OCLC:
- 432407390
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