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Writing and Africa / edited by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: CrosscurrentsPublisher: London : Longman, 1997Description: 308 sISBN:
  • 058221419X
  • 0582214181
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9896 22
Contents:
Introduction / 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.
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Introduction / 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.

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