Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139054638
Content:
This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students
Content:
Africa and orality / Liz Gunner -- The folktale and its extensions / Kwesi Yankah -- Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Oaniyan -- Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / Sabra Webber -- Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / Lupenga Mphande -- African oral epics / Isidore Okpehwo -- The oral tradition in the African diaspora / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / Keith Q. Warner -- Africa and writing / Alain Ricard -- Ethiopian literature / Teodros Kiros -- African literature in Arabic / Farida Abu-Haidar -- The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Africa and the European Renaissance / Silvie Kandé -- The literature of slavery and abolition / Moira Ferguson -- Discourses of empire / Robert Eric Livingston -- African-language literatures of southern Africa / Daniel P. Kuene -- Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels / Ann Biersteker -- The emergence of written Hausa literature / Ousseina Alidou -- Literature in Yorùbá : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama / Karin Barber -- African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi -- The formative journals and institutions / Milton Krieger -- Literature in Afrikaans / Ampie Coetzee
In:
1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521832756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521594340
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature ; 1 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004 ISBN 0521832756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521594340
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521832755
Language:
Undetermined
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521832755
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