| Alt 14 Insiders & Outsiders: African Literature Today Contributor(s): Jones, Eldred (Editor), Palmer, Eustace (Editor), Jones, Marjorie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0852555148 ISBN-13: 9780852555149 Publisher: James Currey OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Collections | African - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside influences on African writers. This relationship raises complex problems such as which language to write in, and the representation or misrepresentation of the continent. Kole Omotoso gives a trans-Saharan view of Africa, Funso Aiyejina a West Indian perspective highlighting the work of George Lamming and Denis Williams, and Katherine Frank examines the relevance of feminist criticism to the African novel, Other contributors compare and contrast the works of European, American and African writers: Graham Greene and Dadié; Soyinka and Beckett; Laye, Lamming and Wright; Camus and Césaire; Yeats and J.P. Clark; Equiano and Defoe; Ernest Gaines and Oyono |