Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud.
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Title
West African literatures.
International Standard Book Number
0199298874
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
West African literature (English)-- History and criticism.