West African literatures : ways of reading

Newell, Stephanie 1968- (Author).

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.

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ISBN: 6610905738
ISBN: 9786610905737
ISBN: 9780199273973
ISBN: 0199273979
ISBN: 9780199298877
ISBN: 0199298874
ISBN: 0199273979
ISBN: 9780199273973
ISBN: 0199298874
ISBN: 9780199298877
ISBN: 019153837X
ISBN: 9780191538377
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : maps.
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.