The emergence of African fiction. / Charles R. Larson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larson, Charles R.

Contributor:

Stallknecht, Newton P. (Newton Phelps), 1906-1981, writer of foreword.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African fiction (English)--History and criticism.

African fiction (English).

African fiction (French)--History and criticism.

African fiction (French).

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 305 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : map. ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana University Press 1972.

Contents:

Critical approaches to African fiction

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: The Archetypal African Novel (Nigeria)

Pamela in Africa: Onitsha Market Literature (Nigeria)

Time, space, and description: The Tutuolan World (Nigeria)

The "Situational" Novel: The novels of James Ngugi (Kenya)

Characters and modes of characterization: Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), James Ngugi (Kenya), and Peter Abrahams (South Africa)

Assimilated Négritude: Camara Laye's Le regard du roi (Guinea)

Lenrie Peters' The Second Round: West African Gothic (Gambia); The Novel of the Future: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)

Conclusion: The emergence of African fiction.

Notes:

Foreword by Newton P. Stallknecht.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-298) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition "Midland Book MB-149".

Banks Collection copy has "14 Day Mar 22 1974 Mar 15 1975" stamped on inside back cover.

ISBN:

0253319455

0253201497

OCLC:

314178