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African writers / C. Brian Cox, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature--Bio-bibliography.
- African literature.
- Authors, African--Biography.
- Authors, African.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxxi, 936 pages))
- Other Title:
- African Writers 1
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons ; London : Simon & Schuster Prentice Hall International, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contains essays on African writers from seventeen countries writing in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and indigenous languages. Subjects span the late nineteenth century to the present.
- Contents:
- vol. 1. Peter Abrahams
- Chinua Achebe
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Ayi Kwei Armah
- Kofi Awoonor
- Mariama Ba
- Mongo Beti
- Andre Brink
- Dennis Brutus
- Roy Campbell
- Albert Camus
- John Pepper Clark
- J.M. Coetzee
- Mia Couto
- Mohammed Dib
- Obi Egbuna
- Cyprian Ekwensi
- Buchi Emecheta
- Nuruddin Farah
- Athol Fugard
- Nadine Gordimer
- Tawfiq al-Hakim
- Bessie Head
- Luis Bernardo Honwana
- Christopher Hope
- Yusuf Idris
- Festus Iyayi
- Dan Jacobson
- Kateb Yacine
- Alex La Guma
- Camara Laye
- Doris Lessing
- vol. 2. Najib Mahfuz
- Albert Memmi
- Thomas Mokopu Mofolo
- Es'kia Mphahlele
- Meja Mwangi
- Agostinho Neto
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Tanure Ojaide
- Gabriel Okara
- Christopher Okigbo
- Ben Okri
- Kole Omotoso
- Femi Osofisan
- Niyi Osundare
- Ferdinand Oyono
- Alan Paton
- Okot p'Bitek
- Pepetela
- William Plomer
- Ola Rotimi
- Nawal al-Saadawi
- al-Tayyib Salih
- Olive Schreiner
- Sembene Ousmane
- Leopold Sedar Senghor
- Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
- Bode Sowande
- Wole Soyinka
- Efua Theodora Sutherland
- Taha Husayn
- Amos Tutuola
- Laurens van der Post
- Jose Luandino Vieira.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780684316697
- 0684316692
- OCLC:
- 496521406
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