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A History of twentieth-century African literatures

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University of Nebraska Press, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 411 pages
African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." African writers must struggle constantly to define for themselves and other just what "Africa" is and who they are in a continent constructed as a geographic and cultural entity largely by Europeans. This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in "Europhone" languages—English, French, and Portuguese. Foremost among the Anglophone writers discussed are Nigerians Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka. Writers from East Africa are also represented, as are those from South Africa. Contributors for this section include Jonathan A. Peters, Arlene A. Elder, John F. Povey, Thomas Knipp, and J. Ndukaku Amankulor. In African Francophone literature, we see both writers inspired by the French assimilationist system and those influenced by Negritude, the African-culture affirmation movement. Contributors here include Servanne Woodward, Edris Makward, and Alain Ricard. African literature in Portuguese, reflecting the nature of one of the most oppressive colonizing projects in Africa, is treated by Russell G. Hamilton. Robert Cancel discusses African-language literatures, while Oyekan Owomoyela treats the question of the language of African literatures. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido focus on the special problems of African women writers, while Hans M. Zell deals with the broader issues of publishing—censorship, resources, and organization.

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Contents

EnglishLanguage Fiction from West Africa
9
EnglishLanguage Fiction from South Africa
85
EnglishLanguage Poetry
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About the author (1993)

Oyekan Owomoyela is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of A Ki I: Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs and Visions and Revisions: Essays on African Literatures and Criticism.

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TitleA History of twentieth-century African literatures
AuthorOyekan Owomoyela
EditorOyekan Owomoyela
Translated byOyekan Owomoyela
ContributorOyekan Owomoyela
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1993
Original fromthe University of Virginia
Digitized2 Oct 2007
ISBN0803235526, 9780803235526
Length411 pages
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African literature
African literature/ 20th century/ History and criticism
Literary Criticism / African
Literary Criticism / American / African American
Literary Criticism / General
  
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