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African Novels in the Classroom / ed. by Margaret Jean Hay.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Experienced college teachers describe in practical detail how they use novels to great advantage in teaching African studies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Peter Abrahams’s A Wreath for Udomo
- 2 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
- 3 Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
- 4 Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
- 5 Driss Chraïbi’s Mother Comes of Age
- 6 Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita
- 7 Maryse Condé’s Segu
- 8 Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
- 9 Modikwe Dikobe’s The Marabi Dance
- 10 Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
- 11 Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl
- 12 Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts
- 13 Elsa Joubert’s Poppie Nongena
- 14 J. Nozipo Maraire’s Zenzele: Letters to My Daughter
- 15 Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road
- 16 Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
- 17 Djibril Tamsir Niane’s Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
- 18 Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
- 19 Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy
- 20 Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
- 21 Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood
- 22 Wole Soyinka’s Ake: The Years of Childhood
- 23 Moyez G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack
- 24 P. T. Zeleza’s Smouldering Charcoal
- Novels by Region
- Novels by Principal Themes
- The Contributors
- About the Book
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-68585-923-2
- OCLC:
- 1334343864
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