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- catalog abstract "The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition challenges, from a literary perspective, the general thinking that what is European and American is uniquely different from what is African. The book examines key African novels side by side with British and American modernist novels. Through this comparative study, it demonstrates the manner in which several African novelists have taken full advantage of the experimentation that modernism offers to tackle their own 'crisis of culture'. This study shows that African novelists clearly understand what modernism is and employ to advantage its consciousness of disorder, despair, and anarchy. The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition is thus able to conclude that the African novel is part of a larger fictional universe.".
- catalog contributor b10391385.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: modernism and the African novel -- The dramatised perspective: Henry James, The tragic muse; Wole Soyinka, The interpreters -- The inward perspective: James Joyce, A portrait of the arist as a young man; Virginia Woolf, The waves; Kofi Awoonor, This Earth, my brother -- The multiple perspective: Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; Ngugi Wa Thion'o, Petals of blood -- The multiple perspective II: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Ayi Kwei Armah, Why are we so blest? -- The communal perspective: Chinua Achebe, Things fall apart and Arrow of God; Ayi Kwei Armah, Two thousand seasons; Gabriel Okara, The voice.".
- catalog description "The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition challenges, from a literary perspective, the general thinking that what is European and American is uniquely different from what is African. The book examines key African novels side by side with British and American modernist novels. Through this comparative study, it demonstrates the manner in which several African novelists have taken full advantage of the experimentation that modernism offers to tackle their own 'crisis of culture'. This study shows that African novelists clearly understand what modernism is and employ to advantage its consciousness of disorder, despair, and anarchy. The African Novel and the Modernist Tradition is thus able to conclude that the African novel is part of a larger fictional universe.".
- catalog extent "x, 223 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "African novel and the modernist tradition.".
- catalog identifier "0820426482 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "African novel and the modernist tradition.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in African and African-American culture, 0890-4847 ; vol. 12".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "African novel and the modernist tradition.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "823 20".
- catalog subject "African fiction (English) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature African and American.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature African and English.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature American and African.".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature English and African.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative African and American.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative African and English.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative American and African.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative English and African.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Africa.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "PR9344 .K47 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: modernism and the African novel -- The dramatised perspective: Henry James, The tragic muse; Wole Soyinka, The interpreters -- The inward perspective: James Joyce, A portrait of the arist as a young man; Virginia Woolf, The waves; Kofi Awoonor, This Earth, my brother -- The multiple perspective: Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; Ngugi Wa Thion'o, Petals of blood -- The multiple perspective II: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Ayi Kwei Armah, Why are we so blest? -- The communal perspective: Chinua Achebe, Things fall apart and Arrow of God; Ayi Kwei Armah, Two thousand seasons; Gabriel Okara, The voice.".
- catalog title "The African novel and the modernist tradition / David I. Ker.".
- catalog type "text".