Exile & African literature : a review / editor, Eldred Durosimi Jones ; assistant editor, Marjorie Jones ; associate editors, Simon Gikandi [and others] ; reviews editor, James Gibbs.
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed. |
| Publication Info | Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 2000. |
| Description | viii, 152 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Jones, Eldred D. |
| Other author/creator | Jones, Marjorie. |
| Other author/creator | Gikandi, Simon. |
| Other author/creator | Gibbs, James (James Morel) |
| Portion of title | Exile and African literature |
| Series | African literature today ; 22 African literature today 22. ^A808815 |
| Partial contents | Concepts of exile in Dambudzo Marechera's early works / Annie H. Gagiano -- Mindblasts : narrative technique & iconography of sexual stereotyping as patterns of defilement/cleansing in Bessie Head's A question of power & Dambudzo Marechera's The house of hunger / David Kerr -- Shriek of nerves : the rational voice of Dennis Brutus & the poetry of exile in Salutes and censures / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Culturo-textual exile : the changing 'faces' of African poetry / Lekan Oyegoke -- Shades of home & exile in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels / Nnadozie Inyama -- Crisis of filiation : exile & return in John Munonye's trilogy / Amechi Nicholas Akwanya -- An exile writing on home : protest & commitment in the works of Bessie Head / Sophia O. Ogwude -- Changing states : exile & syncretism in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde / ana Maria Sánchez Arce -- Exile & the female imagination : the Nigeria Civil War, western ideology (feminism) & the poetry of Catherine Acholonu / Ode S. Ogede -- Reviews : Abdourahman Ali Waberi's L'Oeil nomade / Adele King ; Maishe Maponya's Doing plays for a change; At the junction: four plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company; Barney Simon's Born in the RSA; & Zakes Mda's And the girls in their Sunday dresses / Geoffrey V. Davis. |
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| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0865438218 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0865438226 (paper) |