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- catalog abstract ""Since its rise to world stature in the early 1960s, the African novel has offered both literary invention and bitter insight into the post-colonial experience. Such authors as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have helped define the novel of political engagement at the dawn of African independence. More recently, a group of younger African writers has joined them, embracing the tradition of literary protest while testing the limits of narrative form. Derek Wright's New Directions in African Fiction examines the recent work of both generations, providing readers with a lively, lucid introduction to today's African novel." "This study explores twenty-one of the most innovative English-language novels written by Africans over the past thirty years. Rather than basing his selection on an overarching theme, Wright presents a broad range of works and offers an in-depth reading of each on its own terms, guiding readers through contemporary African fiction in all its specificity and diversity."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b10564421.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Since its rise to world stature in the early 1960s, the African novel has offered both literary invention and bitter insight into the post-colonial experience. Such authors as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have helped define the novel of political engagement at the dawn of African independence. More recently, a group of younger African writers has joined them, embracing the tradition of literary protest while testing the limits of narrative form. Derek Wright's New Directions in African Fiction examines the recent work of both generations, providing readers with a lively, lucid introduction to today's African novel." "This study explores twenty-one of the most innovative English-language novels written by Africans over the past thirty years. Rather than basing his selection on an overarching theme, Wright presents a broad range of works and offers an in-depth reading of each on its own terms, guiding readers through contemporary African fiction in all its specificity and diversity."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-198) and index.".
- catalog description "The postcolonial predicament, 1965-1970 -- Lyric fatalism and mystic utopianism: history as myth and ritual in Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother, and Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy -- Orature revisioned: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence and Ayi Kwei Armah's Two thousand seasons -- Orality and dictatorship: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and sour milk -- The African in white South African fiction: landscape and mythology in J.M. Coetzee's Life and times of Michael K -- A wounded nation: Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of thorns and Zimbabwe's legacies of".
- catalog description "liberation -- Regurgitating colonialism: the feminist voice in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Ethnic voices: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Imagined and other worlds: magic history in Kojo Laing's Search sweet country and Ben Okri's The famished road -- Prospective: into the nineties.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 201 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New directions in African fiction.".
- catalog identifier "0805745564 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New directions in African fiction.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 869.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's world authors series ; no. 869".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
- catalog relation "New directions in African fiction.".
- catalog subject "823 21".
- catalog subject "African fiction (English) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR9344 .W75 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "The postcolonial predicament, 1965-1970 -- Lyric fatalism and mystic utopianism: history as myth and ritual in Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother, and Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy -- Orature revisioned: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence and Ayi Kwei Armah's Two thousand seasons -- Orality and dictatorship: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and sour milk -- The African in white South African fiction: landscape and mythology in J.M. Coetzee's Life and times of Michael K -- A wounded nation: Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of thorns and Zimbabwe's legacies of".
- catalog tableOfContents "liberation -- Regurgitating colonialism: the feminist voice in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Ethnic voices: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Imagined and other worlds: magic history in Kojo Laing's Search sweet country and Ben Okri's The famished road -- Prospective: into the nineties.".
- catalog title "New directions in African fiction / Derek Wright.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".