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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Page xxiv
... Reader : Autobiography and African Literature Autobiographical discursive practices ' have been at the critical crossroads of the theoretical , cultural and historic implications of African writing ' . RAL devotes a special volume ...
... Reader : Autobiography and African Literature Autobiographical discursive practices ' have been at the critical crossroads of the theoretical , cultural and historic implications of African writing ' . RAL devotes a special volume ...
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... readers - setting them on a hermeneutical quest that becomes a kind of ' reader's progress ' , and tendency to progressively alter the reader's habits of interpreting literary language as he shifts their position in respect to the ...
... readers - setting them on a hermeneutical quest that becomes a kind of ' reader's progress ' , and tendency to progressively alter the reader's habits of interpreting literary language as he shifts their position in respect to the ...
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... readers of Ngugi's work in translation place the text concurrently in multiple contexts , one of which is the ... reader like himself cannot give answers to all the complex questions involved in the language debate , he ' can only ...
... readers of Ngugi's work in translation place the text concurrently in multiple contexts , one of which is the ... reader like himself cannot give answers to all the complex questions involved in the language debate , he ' can only ...
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