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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
344

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Subjects

African literature, Translations into English, African literature (English), Englisch, Französisch, Portugiesisch, Literatur, African literature, translations into english

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20th century
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Robert Spillman
West Africa: Nonfiction. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): The African writer and the English language
Fiction. Helon Habila (Nigeria): from Waiting for an angel
Mohammed Neseehu Ali (Ghana): The manhood test
Chris Abani (Nigeria): from Becoming Abigail
E. C. Osondu (Nigeria): Voice of America
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Half of a yellow sun
Francophone Africa: Nonfiction. Patrice Nganang (Cameroon): The Senghor complex
Fiction. Alain Mabanckou (Congo): from Broken window
Fatou Diome (Senegal): from The belly of the Atlantic
Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal): from Murambi, the book of bones
North Africa: Nonfiction. Laila Lalami (Morocco): The politics of reading fiction
Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt): from Woman at point zero
Mohamed Magani (Algiers): From The butcher's aesthetics
Aziz Chouaki (Algiers): from The star of Algiers
Leila Aboulela (Sudan): "Souvenirs"
East Africa: Nonfiction. Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya): from Discovering home
Fiction. Nng'g' wa thiong'o (Kenya): from Wizard of the crow
Doreen Baingana (Uganda): Christianity killed the cat
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia): from Knots
Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti): from The united states of Africa
Former Portuguese Colonies: Nonfiction. Mia Couto (Mozambique): Languages we don't know we know
Fiction. Ondjaki (Angola): Dragonfly
José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola): from The book of chameleons
Southern Africa: Nonfiction. J. M. Coetzee (South Africa): from Stranger shores
Fiction. Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Dead swimmers
Niq Mhlongo (South Africa): from Dog eat dog
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "A beneficiary"
Marlene Van Niekerk (South Africa): from Agaat
Zakes Mda (South Africa): from Ways of dying
Ivan Vladislavi' (South Africa): "The whites only bench".

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
808.8/9960904
Library of Congress
PN849.A352 G63 2009, PN849.A352G63 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
344

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OL22528026M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 13
9780143114734
LCCN
2008038434
OCLC/WorldCat
253634775
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6203277

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