The breast of the Earth : a survey of the history, culture, and literature of Africa south of the Sahara / Kofi Awoonor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Africa--Civilization.

Africa.

Civilization.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Cvilization.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Awoonor, Kofi, 1935-2013 (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 387 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.

Contents:

Part I. Africa and her external contacts. A brief history of precolonial Africa; Arrival of Europe, indirect rule, assimilation, and Christianity; Islamic penetration of Africa; The move for independence

Part II. Traditional Africa. Traditional African society and its philosophy; Art, music, languages; Oral literature: Ritual drama, prose narrative, poetry

Part II. Contemporary Africa. Literature in African languages: Samples of Sotho, Xhose, Ewe, Hausa, and Swahili literature; Literature in the received languages, Negritude, and the black literary revolt; Negritude poets: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, David Diop, and Tchicaya U Tam'si; Older poets of English-speaking Afria; Contemporary samples of English-speaking African poetry; Amos Tutuola and Yoruba folklore; Chinua Achebe and the rise of modern African fiction; James Ngugi, Ferdinan Oyono, and the anticolonial nove; The modern drama of Africa; Contemporary art forms; The future.

Notes:

"Jacket by David November."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-372) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "For Joanna the wine biber (?). Kofi Awoonor".

Banks Collection copy has newspaper articles laid in.

ISBN:

0385070535

0385073380

OCLC:

1103955