The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

by F. Abiola Irele

2021-01-07 00:12:59

This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagin... Read more
This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele''s probing criticalreadings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampate Ba, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as awhole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters. Less

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File size8.9 X 5.91 X 0.91 in
Print pages320
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date September 15, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195086195

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