| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English
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Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Where is West Africa? -- Negritude -- Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature -- Oral Literatures -- Lost and Found in Translation -- Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the ColonialScape -- Popular Literature -- Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s1990s -- Feminism and the Complex Space of Womens Writing -- Marxism and West African Literature -- The Three Posts: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism -- Experimental Writing by the Third Generation -- Queering West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking and Vronique Tadjo -- Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory. |
| Summary |
West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
West African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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West African literature (English) |
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Africa, West -- Intellectual life.
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West Africa. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Africa, West -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newell, Stephanie, 1968- West African literatures. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199298874 (DLC) 2006004658 (OCoLC)64288904 |
| ISBN |
9780191538377 (electronic book) |
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019153837X (electronic book) |
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9780199298877 |
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0199298874 |
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9780199273973 (paperback) |
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0199273979 (paperback) |
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