An edition of Standpoints on African literature (1973)

Standpoints on African literature

a critical anthology

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389

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Table of Contents

Preface.
Introduction.
Tejani, B. Creative freedom and critical function in African literature.
Ngugi, S. Popular lyric poetry in East Africa.
Gathugu, M. Okot p'Bitek.
Ngubiah, S. N. Ngugi's early writings.
Ojero, P. O. Of Tares and broken handles, Ngugi preaches.
Wanjala, C. The tabanic genre.
Atieno-Odhiambo et al. Okot's two songs.
Nazareth, P. The trial of a juggler.
Wanjala, C. Achebe.
Gachukia, E. W. Chinua Achebe and tradition.
Nyang'aya, E. M. The freakish Tutuola.
Chakava, H. Ayi Kwei Armah and a commonwealth of souls.
Roscoe, A. A. Okara's unheeded voice.
Nandwa, J. Mission to Kala.
Luvai, A. The role of the old in the writings of Ferdinand Oyono, Mongo Beti, and Senbene Ousmane.
Gecau, K. Alienation and disillusion in Ferdinand Oyono's African characters.
Calder, A. A sense of shame.
Luvai, A. The poetry of Wole Soyinka and Christopher Okigbo.
Wanjala, C. The face of injustice.
Tejani, B. The prison poems of Dennis Brutus.
Gecau, K. The various levels of betrayal in Wreath for Udomo.
Ngugi, S. Cesaire's "Return to my native land."
Nyang'aya, E. Richard Wright's commitment.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Nairobi

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
896
Library of Congress
PR9340.5 .S7

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 389 p. ;
Number of pages
389

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5040645M
LCCN
73980196
OCLC/WorldCat
3255953, 863208

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