Issues in African literature / Charles E. Nnolim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nnolim, Charles E.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc., Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lagos [Nigeria] : Malthouse Press Ltd., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots, superficial characterisation, and narrative structures. African literature also, it is observed, is a mixed grill: it is oral; it is written in vernacular or tribal tongues; written in foreign tongues English, French, Portuguese and within the foreign language in which it is written, pidgin and creole further bend the already bent language giving African literature a further taint of linguistic i

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1. A source for Arrow of God; 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature; 3. Utopian literature and the African world view; 4. Politics in the West African novel; 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel; 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature; 7. A house divided: feminism in African literature; 8. Achebe's tragic heroes; 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications; 10. The critic of African literature: the challenge of the 1980's

11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel 12. the unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes; 13. The ""Sons of Achebe"": example of John Munonye; 14. African feminism: the scandalous path; 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction; 16. The writer as patriot; Epilogue; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613905833

9781283593380

1283593386

9789788422822

9788422829

9789788422808

9788422802

OCLC:

817811923