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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... Fiction from West Africa ' ( in Owomoyela ) , employing the retrospective insight of the chronicler , is a compendium which anyone interested in the linear history of West African fiction in the English Language will find useful ...
... Fiction from West Africa ' ( in Owomoyela ) , employing the retrospective insight of the chronicler , is a compendium which anyone interested in the linear history of West African fiction in the English Language will find useful ...
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... Fiction of Ngugi wa Thiong'o ' ( in Gurnah , Essays on African Writing 1 ) focuses on paradigmatic themes in Ngugi's fiction , themes which include ' expropriation of African land and subsequent rupture of " whole ways of life " ; the ...
... Fiction of Ngugi wa Thiong'o ' ( in Gurnah , Essays on African Writing 1 ) focuses on paradigmatic themes in Ngugi's fiction , themes which include ' expropriation of African land and subsequent rupture of " whole ways of life " ; the ...
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... fiction as ' genres with elastic boundaries , overlappings , and mutual influences ' . According to Séverac , ' African literature historicizes fiction ' in ways that employ fiction in the service of history and not history to create ...
... fiction as ' genres with elastic boundaries , overlappings , and mutual influences ' . According to Séverac , ' African literature historicizes fiction ' in ways that employ fiction in the service of history and not history to create ...
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