Gareth Griffiths

African Literatures in English

East and West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text provides students with a fascinating historical and sociological overview of the literature in English from East and West Africa, introducing a wide range of writers, genres and individual works and also providing an overview of the main events and forces which have shaped the writing.

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Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780582089266
• ISBN-10: 0582089263
• Artikelnr.: 39292968

Autorenporträt

Gareth Griffiths

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Patronage and the development of East and West African English
writing. 1. 18th and 19th Century Slave Narratives of the Black Diaspora 2.
19th and Early 20th Century Histories, Travel Accounts, Political Writing
and the Beginnings of Fiction 3. 19th and 20th Century Missionary-Writing
Testements and Writings by Africans Produced Under Missionary Auspices and
Control 4. 20th Century Secular Patronage: Literature, Education and
Control
5. 20th Century Popular Culture and English Writing in Africa Dominant
themes and Patterns in East and West African Writing in English 6.
Alternatives: Contrasting Themes and Patterns in Post-Independence Africa
Writing in English
7. Self-Criticism and Post-Independence Disillusion 8. Opposition,
Resistance and Decolonisation 9. Internal Discord. Alternative Voices in
East and West African English Writing. 10. Minority Voices: English Writing
in Non-Anglophone East and West African Countries 11. Women's Voices:
Gendered Pasts, Liberated Futures 12. New Transcultural Voices in East and
West African Writing References. Chronology of Literary and Historical
Events
General Bibliography Individual Authors: Notes on Biography, Works and
Criticism