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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... major step in the development of East African Literature as that taken by Ngugi when he published Weep Not , Child ( 1964 ) and The River Between ( 1965 ) , ' both historical novels treating representative experiences by mainly the ...
... major step in the development of East African Literature as that taken by Ngugi when he published Weep Not , Child ( 1964 ) and The River Between ( 1965 ) , ' both historical novels treating representative experiences by mainly the ...
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... major posts of the tail end of the twentieth Century , and postulates the quintessential dilemma with which every potential commentator has to grapple : ' what are asterisks , in place of what are they and what comes after , post- them ...
... major posts of the tail end of the twentieth Century , and postulates the quintessential dilemma with which every potential commentator has to grapple : ' what are asterisks , in place of what are they and what comes after , post- them ...
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... major West African playwrights writing in English . Nwachukwu - Agbada's contribution draws home the point with the observation that since ' the eighties saw the rise of far more poets and novelists than dramatists ' , it is probably ...
... major West African playwrights writing in English . Nwachukwu - Agbada's contribution draws home the point with the observation that since ' the eighties saw the rise of far more poets and novelists than dramatists ' , it is probably ...
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