Developing Trends in the African Novel: A Focus on Contending Themes - Bathalomew, Emmanuel
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In this work, Emmanuel shows how contemporary novels have deliberately targeted rewriting Africa's history through Literature and thus reconstruct the dark paintings of Africa that occurred during and after colonial era. Through the works of some leading African literary scholars, he makes sound analysis of these developing trends and puts into perspective a narrative of these historical literary trends in Africa, with special emphasis on the growth of the African novel amidst its challenges. A work of this nature therefore, is relevant not only to literary scholars and students of literature,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In this work, Emmanuel shows how contemporary novels have deliberately targeted rewriting Africa's history through Literature and thus reconstruct the dark paintings of Africa that occurred during and after colonial era. Through the works of some leading African literary scholars, he makes sound analysis of these developing trends and puts into perspective a narrative of these historical literary trends in Africa, with special emphasis on the growth of the African novel amidst its challenges. A work of this nature therefore, is relevant not only to literary scholars and students of literature, but to policy makers, sociologists and young novel readers. You will see a different Africa from those of Joseph Conrad's Amos Tutuola's, Daniel Fagunwa's etc Brima Patrick Kapuwa Ph.D Head, Department of Sociology and Social Work School of Social Sciences Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.
Autorenporträt
Emmanuel is an English Language teacher at Cambridge International Centre of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. He is currently working on his next publication: Stories From the Classroom: The Memoir of the Chocolate Teacher.