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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... novel and not a play , which appeared in 1975 , that introduced the writer to a Nigerian / African audience / reader . Dunton demonstrates how the novel establishes a continuity between itself and Osofisan's highly acclaimed plays such ...
... novel and not a play , which appeared in 1975 , that introduced the writer to a Nigerian / African audience / reader . Dunton demonstrates how the novel establishes a continuity between itself and Osofisan's highly acclaimed plays such ...
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... novel : ' Armah's device in this process is to reappropriate the colonial discourse on land ownership . Secondly , the novel presents land as an object of colonial appetite which needs to be defended at all costs hence the narrator's ...
... novel : ' Armah's device in this process is to reappropriate the colonial discourse on land ownership . Secondly , the novel presents land as an object of colonial appetite which needs to be defended at all costs hence the narrator's ...
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... novel , Les temps de Tamango and short play in six tableaux and an epilogue , entitled Thiaroye terre rouge . From the clear denunciation of négritude and its principal proponent in the novel - a denunciation that is emblematic of the ...
... novel , Les temps de Tamango and short play in six tableaux and an epilogue , entitled Thiaroye terre rouge . From the clear denunciation of négritude and its principal proponent in the novel - a denunciation that is emblematic of the ...
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