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New directions in African fiction / Derek Wright.
| Author/creator | Wright, Derek |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1997. |
| Description | xiii, 201 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Twayne's world authors series ; no. 869 Twayne's world authors series TWAS 869. ^A178884 |
| Contents | The postcolonial predicament, 1965-1970 -- Lyric fatalism and mystic utopianism: history as myth and ritual in Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother, and Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy -- Orature revisioned: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence and Ayi Kwei Armah's Two thousand seasons -- Orality and dictatorship: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and sour milk -- The African in white South African fiction: landscape and mythology in J.M. Coetzee's Life and times of Michael K -- A wounded nation: Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of thorns and Zimbabwe's legacies of |
| Contents | liberation -- Regurgitating colonialism: the feminist voice in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Ethnic voices: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Imagined and other worlds: magic history in Kojo Laing's Search sweet country and Ben Okri's The famished road -- Prospective: into the nineties. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-198) and index. |
| LCCN | 97020634 |
| ISBN | 0805745564 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR9344 .W75 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |