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Issues in African literature / Charles E. Nnolim

Author
Nnolim, Charles E.
Published
Lagos : Malthouse Press, 2009.
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
1. A source for Arrow of God -- 2. Trends in the criticism of African literature -- 3. Utopian literature and the African world view -- 4. Politics in the West African novel -- 5. The Nigerian tradition in the novel -- 6. Prolegomena to a definition of the African aesthetic in literature -- 7. A house divided: feminism in African iterature -- 8. Achebes tragic heroes -- 9. Achebe's masked spirits: culture's hum and buzz of social implications -- 10. The critic of African literatue: the challenge of the 1980s -- 11. Moral values in the Nigerian novel -- 12. The unhappy woman in Nigerian fiction: a mythic interpretation of the archetypes -- 13. The "Sons of Achebe": example of John Munonye -- 14. African feminism: the scandalous path -- 15. Contemporary Nigerian fiction -- 16. The writer as patriot.
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ISBN
9789788422822 (electronic bk.)
9788422829 (electronic bk.)
0878310754
9780878310753
9789788422365
9788422365
Note
"First published 2009"--Title page verso
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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