Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 204 p)
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22 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1282993127
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9780230105461
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9781282993129
Content:
This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
Content:
This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pitfalls of Postcolonial Intellectual Consciousness: African Literature in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution; 1 Early Fictions of School Culture: The River Between and Weep Not, Child; 2 Later Fictions of School Culture: Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross; 3 The Theaters of School Culture: Imaging the Nation in Ngugi's Plays; Conclusion: Between Irony and Tragedy: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure in Ambiguous Adventure; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230113985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282986147
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature
Language:
English
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