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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... focus in Jeff Thomson's " The Politics of the Shuttle : Wole Soyinka's Poetic Space " ( RAL 27.ii , 94-101 ) Besides his quintessential tendency to destroy easy distinction and simultaneously re- establish the lost role of the tapestry ...
... focus in Jeff Thomson's " The Politics of the Shuttle : Wole Soyinka's Poetic Space " ( RAL 27.ii , 94-101 ) Besides his quintessential tendency to destroy easy distinction and simultaneously re- establish the lost role of the tapestry ...
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... focus on what a discursive formation should at least attempt to conceptualize within the purview of the historical logic of its object or subject . According to Masilela , Paul Gilroy's controversial The Black Atlantic has not only ...
... focus on what a discursive formation should at least attempt to conceptualize within the purview of the historical logic of its object or subject . According to Masilela , Paul Gilroy's controversial The Black Atlantic has not only ...
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... focus of both novels , in comparing Rooke with another writer who began life in colonial circumstances and went on to achieve international fame , Hooper's reading of Rooke's novel has been informed and structured by a reading of ...
... focus of both novels , in comparing Rooke with another writer who began life in colonial circumstances and went on to achieve international fame , Hooper's reading of Rooke's novel has been informed and structured by a reading of ...
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