West African literatures : ways of reading / Stephanie Newell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newell, Stephanie, 1968- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West African literature (English)--History and criticism.

West African literature (English).

Africa, West--Intellectual life.

Africa, West.

Africa, West--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stephanie Newell provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field of West African literature, especially in relation to postcolonialism.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of maps; West African Timeline; 1 Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'?; 2 Négritude; 3 Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature; 4 Oral Literatures; 5 Lost and Found in Translation; 6 Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-scape; 7 Popular Literature; 8 Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s; 9 Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing; 10 Marxism and West African Literature; 11 The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism

12 Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation'13 'Queering' West African Literatures: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo; 14 Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-249) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04432-5

1-280-90573-5

0-19-153837-X

0-19-151523-X

OCLC:

253008567