New novels in African literature today a review
This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Afri...
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Boydell & Brewer
2010
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple : the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus / Brenda Cooper
- Ambivalent inscriptions : women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction / Omar Sougou
- The interrupted dance : racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call me by my rightful name / Clement Abiaziem Okafor
- The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse on dit non / Sery Bailly
- Ngugi's Wizard of the crow : women as the voice of the people & the Western audience / Joseph McLaren
- The Ankh & Maat : symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising / Sophie Akhuemokhan
- A new African youth novel in the era of HIV, AIDS : an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' / Machiko Oike
- The prison of Nigerian women : female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything good will come / Florence Orabueze
- Manufacturing skin for Somala's history : Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links / Tej N. Dhar
- A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity : Tsitsi Dangarrembga's The book of Not & the Unhu philosophy of personhood / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
- Coming to America : Ike Oguine's A squatter's tale & the Nigerian-African immigrant's narrative / Christopher Okonkwo
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Charles Nnolim