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Reading the African novel / Simon Gikandi.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Studies in African literature. New seriesPublisher: London : Currey, 1987Description: 172 sISBN:
  • 0852555040
  • 0435080180
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 19
  • 823 19
Other classification:
  • Gep.01
  • Gep.55
Contents:
1. The parabolical narrative : character and consciousness in the novels of Camara Laye and Ayi Kwei Armah -- 2. The biographical narrative : the irony of experience in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala, Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure -- 3. The subjective narrative : exile and alienation in the novels of Wole Soyinka and the early Ayi Kwei Armah -- 4. The political novel : community, character and consciousness in Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood, Alex La Guma's In the Fog of the Season's End and Ngugi's Petals of Blood -- 5. Rereading the African novel : myth, languge and culture in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Elechi Amadi's The Concubine
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Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 823 Gikandi Available 6122350001402
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1. The parabolical narrative : character and consciousness in the novels of Camara Laye and Ayi Kwei Armah -- 2. The biographical narrative : the irony of experience in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala, Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure -- 3. The subjective narrative : exile and alienation in the novels of Wole Soyinka and the early Ayi Kwei Armah -- 4. The political novel : community, character and consciousness in Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood, Alex La Guma's In the Fog of the Season's End and Ngugi's Petals of Blood -- 5. Rereading the African novel : myth, languge and culture in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Elechi Amadi's The Concubine