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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... Reading Buchi Emecheta : Cross - Cultural Conversations , and RAL's special issue ( 26.ii ) on the work of the late Flora Nwapa ( eds . Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Marie Umeh ) , other critical engagements with the work of the older ...
... Reading Buchi Emecheta : Cross - Cultural Conversations , and RAL's special issue ( 26.ii ) on the work of the late Flora Nwapa ( eds . Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Marie Umeh ) , other critical engagements with the work of the older ...
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... reader and a new way of looking at the process of reading ' . Within the ramifying parameters of what Duncan Brown has also described ( while introducing Current Writing's special issue on ' Orality in Southern African Literary Studies ...
... reader and a new way of looking at the process of reading ' . Within the ramifying parameters of what Duncan Brown has also described ( while introducing Current Writing's special issue on ' Orality in Southern African Literary Studies ...
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... reading of Rooke's novel has been informed and structured by a reading of Lessing's text : ' hence three points of focus are the " madness " of the central character , the relations that can be recognised between the central character ...
... reading of Rooke's novel has been informed and structured by a reading of Lessing's text : ' hence three points of focus are the " madness " of the central character , the relations that can be recognised between the central character ...
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