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008 970513s1997 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPR9344$b.W75 1997
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aWright, Derek.
245 10 $aNew directions in African fiction /$cDerek Wright.
260 $aNew York :$bTwayne Publishers ;$aLondon :$bPrentice Hall International,$c©1997.
300 $axiii, 201 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $aTwayne's world authors series ;$vno. 869
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 190-198) and index.
505 0 $aThe postcolonial predicament, 1965-1970 -- Lyric fatalism and mystic utopianism: history as myth and ritual in Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother, and Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy -- Orature revisioned: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence and Ayi Kwei Armah's Two thousand seasons -- Orality and dictatorship: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and sour milk -- The African in white South African fiction: landscape and mythology in J.M. Coetzee's Life and times of Michael K -- A wounded nation: Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of thorns and Zimbabwe's legacies of.
505 0 $aliberation -- Regurgitating colonialism: the feminist voice in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Ethnic voices: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Imagined and other worlds: magic history in Kojo Laing's Search sweet country and Ben Okri's The famished road -- Prospective: into the nineties.
520 1 $a"Since its rise to world stature in the early 1960s, the African novel has offered both literary invention and bitter insight into the post-colonial experience. Such authors as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have helped define the novel of political engagement at the dawn of African independence. More recently, a group of younger African writers has joined them, embracing the tradition of literary protest while testing the limits of narrative form. Derek Wright's New Directions in African Fiction examines the recent work of both generations, providing readers with a lively, lucid introduction to today's African novel." "This study explores twenty-one of the most innovative English-language novels written by Africans over the past thirty years. Rather than basing his selection on an overarching theme, Wright presents a broad range of works and offers an in-depth reading of each on its own terms, guiding readers through contemporary African fiction in all its specificity and diversity."--Jacket.
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650 0 $aAfrican fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aAfrican fiction (English)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00799780
650 7 $aLiteratur$2gnd
651 7 $aSubsaharisches Afrika$2gnd
651 7 $aEnglisch.$2swd
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aWright, Derek.$tNew directions in African fiction.$dNew York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1997$w(OCoLC)645878641
830 0 $aTwayne's world authors series ;$vTWAS 869.
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856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2491
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