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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... space for feminist theory to mount its formidable critique of authoritarian and patriarchal codes and categories . 11. 2001 African Oral Literature and Performance Aesthetics " The politics of performance space , ' as the second chapter ...
... space for feminist theory to mount its formidable critique of authoritarian and patriarchal codes and categories . 11. 2001 African Oral Literature and Performance Aesthetics " The politics of performance space , ' as the second chapter ...
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... space , and examines how the African cultural space , in the handling of Achebe , functions as a paradoxical ' space of emplacement ' . If this ' doubleness ' accounts for the chronotopic disjuncture that leads to the triumph of ...
... space , and examines how the African cultural space , in the handling of Achebe , functions as a paradoxical ' space of emplacement ' . If this ' doubleness ' accounts for the chronotopic disjuncture that leads to the triumph of ...
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... Space in Robinson Crusoe and J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K ( CW8.i. 19-32 ) ; Sheila Roberts ' ' City of Man : The Appropriation of Dante's Inferno in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron ( CW 20.i. 33-44 ) ; Johan Geertsema's ...
... Space in Robinson Crusoe and J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K ( CW8.i. 19-32 ) ; Sheila Roberts ' ' City of Man : The Appropriation of Dante's Inferno in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron ( CW 20.i. 33-44 ) ; Johan Geertsema's ...
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