The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership / Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

"The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emergi...

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Main Author: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
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505 0 0 |g Introduction.  |t Manufacturing the African novel : the Makerere writers and questions of language, identity, and ownership --  |t No shrubbing in the English metaphysical empire, please : a question of language --  |t Amos Tutuola : creating the African literary bogeyman --  |t Africa's missing literary history : from A.C. Jordan's Child of two worlds to NoViolet Bulawayo's fractured multiple worlds --  |t Manufacturing the African literary canon : costs and opportunities --  |t Toward a rooted transnational African literature : politics of image and naming. 
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