Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska -- pt. I. Writing and History: A Survey. 1. North African writing / Anissa Talahite. 2. West African writing / Patrick Williams. 3. East and Central African writing / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska -- pt. II. Issues and Problems. 4. What is African literature?: ethnography and criticism / Kadiatu Kanneh. 5. Fiction as an historicising form in modern South Africa / Michael Green. 6. Empires of the imagination: Rider Haggard, popular fiction and Africa / Terence Rodgers. 7. Stars in the moral universe: writing and resistance to colonialism / Ed Marum. 8. Writing, literacy and history of Africa / Gareth Griffiths. 9. Oral tradition as history / Robin Law. 10. Popular writing in Africa / Jane Bryce-Okunlola. 11. African writing and gender / Lyn Innes and Caroline Rooney. 12. The changing fortunes of the writer in Africa? / Jack Mapanje. 13. The press in Africa: expression and repression / Adewale Maja-Pearce. 14. Post-colonialism and language / Kwaku Larbi Korang and Stephen Slemon. -- pt. III. Selected documents. 1. Countering colonial and neo-colonial hegemony ; Writing and gender ; The role of the writer ; The language question.
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Title
Writing and Africa.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African literature (English)-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
African literature (English)-- History and criticism.
African literature (English)
Afrika
Engels.
Englisch
Geistesleben
Intellectual life.
Letterkunde.
Literatur
Literatura africana (Inglés)-- Historia y crítica.