West African literatures : ways of reading

West African literatures : ways of reading / Stephanie Newell.

West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about liter...

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Main Author: Newell, Stephanie, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
Subjects:
West African literature (English) > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Intellectual life
Literature
West African literature (English)
Letterkunde.
Frans.
Engels.
Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Africa, West > In literature.
West Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Where is West Africa?
  • Negritude
  • Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature
  • Oral Literatures
  • Lost and Found in Translation
  • Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the ColonialScape
  • Popular Literature
  • Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s1990s
  • Feminism and the Complex Space of Womens Writing
  • Marxism and West African Literature
  • The Three Posts: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
  • Experimental Writing by the Third Generation
  • Queering West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking and Vronique Tadjo
  • Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory.

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