The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora / F. Abiola Irele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irele, Abiola.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Literature and society--Africa.

Literature and society.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

F. Abiola Irele is an expert on the anglophone and francophone traditions in post-colonial African literature. This collection of his essays examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context.

Contents:

Contents; 1. The African Imagination; 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature; 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition; 4. Dimensions of African Discourse; 5. Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's: The Fortunes of Wangrin; 6. Narrative, History, and the African Imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's: Monnè, outrages et défis; 7. The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's: Things Fall Apart; 8. Return of the Native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks; 9. A National Voice: The Poetry and Plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo; 10. Parables of the African Condition: The New Realism in African Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-772299-7

1-280-76041-9

0-19-535881-3

OCLC:

252640004