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050 00 $aPR9340$b.W5 1997
245 00 $aWriting and Africa /$cedited by Mpalive-Hangson
Msiska and Paul Hyland.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bLongman,$c1997.
300 $axi, 308 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aCrosscurrents.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska -- Pt. I.
Writing and History: A Survey. 1. North African writing /
Anissa Talahite. 2. West African writing / Patrick Williams.
3. East and Central African writing / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
-- Pt. II. Issues and Problems. 4. What is African
literature?: ethnography and criticism / Kadiatu Kanneh. 5.
Fiction as an historicising form in modern South Africa /
Michael Green. 6. Empires of the imagination: Rider Haggard,
popular fiction and Africa / Terence Rodgers. 7. Stars in
the moral universe: writing and resistance to colonialism /
Ed Marum. 8. Writing, literacy and history of Africa /
Gareth Griffiths. 9. Oral tradition as history / Robin Law.
10. Popular writing in Africa / Jane Bryce-Okunlola. 11.
African writing and gender / Lyn Innes and Caroline Rooney.
12. The changing fortunes of the writer in Africa? / Jack
Mapanje. 13. The press in Africa: expression and repression
/ Adewale Maja-Pearce. 14. Post-colonialism and language /
Kwaku Larbi Korang and Stephen Slemon -- Pt. III. Selected
Documents. 1. Countering colonial and neo-colonial hegemony.
2. Writing and gender. 3. The role of the writer. 4. The
language question.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-297)
and index.
650 0 $aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and
criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aAfrican literature (English)$xHistory and
criticism.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn literature.
700 1 $aMsiska, Mpalive-Hangson.
700 1 $aHyland, Paul.
830 0 $aCrosscurrents (London, England)
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