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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... least one of the seminal works during the year , Kenneth Harrow's book - length study of what he calls Thresholds of Change in African Literature : The Emergence of a Tradition , repudiates a major tendency in African literature ; " the ...
... least one of the seminal works during the year , Kenneth Harrow's book - length study of what he calls Thresholds of Change in African Literature : The Emergence of a Tradition , repudiates a major tendency in African literature ; " the ...
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... least not as much as the marked influences of the university Colleges established by the British . Also , having run the whole gamut of anthropological and autobiographical writing , East Africa , according to Eider , could not have ...
... least not as much as the marked influences of the university Colleges established by the British . Also , having run the whole gamut of anthropological and autobiographical writing , East Africa , according to Eider , could not have ...
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... least some of the politics of postcolonial cultures as a given ' , that range of topics and methodologies is represented in this volume in all its indeterminacy . Helen Tiffin's essay complements that of one her colleagues of the The ...
... least some of the politics of postcolonial cultures as a given ' , that range of topics and methodologies is represented in this volume in all its indeterminacy . Helen Tiffin's essay complements that of one her colleagues of the The ...
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