Black African Literature in English, 1991-2001: Critical Appreciation and ReceptionThe English Association, based at the University of Leicester in the UK, aims to further knowledge and enjoyment of the English language and literature, and to foster good practice in its teaching and learning at all levels. They produce an annual review, The Year's Work in English, published by Oxford University Press, a narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on the English language and literatures, including on new literatures in English. This book brings together eleven contributions contemporary black African literature in English, 1991-2001. Some 120 books and over 300 scholarly and bibliographical essays from journals and periodicals are reviewed. |
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... West , insidiously perhaps , has become close to us ; that presupposes knowing , in what is permitted us to think against the West , what is still Western ; and to measure the extent to which our recourse against it is still perhaps a ...
... West , insidiously perhaps , has become close to us ; that presupposes knowing , in what is permitted us to think against the West , what is still Western ; and to measure the extent to which our recourse against it is still perhaps a ...
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... West " and Gender in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi ' ( ESA 37.i.47-61 ) upholds a view of the post- as challenge / subversion through her critical identification of Emecheta's fable as a provocative view of colonial and neocolonial ...
... West " and Gender in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi ' ( ESA 37.i.47-61 ) upholds a view of the post- as challenge / subversion through her critical identification of Emecheta's fable as a provocative view of colonial and neocolonial ...
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... West Africa - Concerned with writing in English , and concentrating on a number of key moments and figures , Patrick Williams ' ' West African Writing in English ' ( in Msiska & Hyland , pp.31-45 ) is our pilot essay into what it ...
... West Africa - Concerned with writing in English , and concentrating on a number of key moments and figures , Patrick Williams ' ' West African Writing in English ' ( in Msiska & Hyland , pp.31-45 ) is our pilot essay into what it ...
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