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Title: ALT 11 MYTH & HISTORY: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY
By: Eldred Durosimi Jones (Editor)
Format: Paperback

List price: £18.99


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ISBN 10: 1847011225
ISBN 13: 9781847011220
Publisher: JAMES CURREY
Pub. date: 31 January, 1980
Series: African Literature Today v.11
Pages: 237
Description: The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.
Synopsis: This volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way myth and history have influenced both the literature of Africa and individual writers. Isidore Okpewho, Solomon O. Iyasere and Mazisi Kunene contribute here on myth, oral tradition and African cosmological systems. Armah's vision of history is examined both in the way that it appears in his novels and in comparison with Ouologuem and Soyinka; also examined are Elechi Amadi's view of the gods, Achebe's use of myth in Arrow of God and the inward journey of Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard. There are views across the Atlantic of the way the Middle Passage resonates in the work of Edouard Glissant and in the work of a number of writers from West Africa.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: James Currey
Returns: Returnable
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ALT 12 NEW WRITING, NEW APPROACHES: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 13 RECENT TRENDS IN THE NOVEL: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 14 INSIDERS & OUTSIDERS: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 15 WOMEN IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 16 ORAL AND WRITTEN POETRY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 17 THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 18 ORATURE IN AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 19 CRITICAL THEORY AND AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 20 NEW TRENDS AND GENERATIONS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE (PB)
ALT 21 CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE (PB)
ALT 22 EXILE AND AFRICAN LITERATURE (PB)
ALT 23 SOUTH AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (PB)
ALT 5 THE NOVEL IN AFRICA: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 6 POETRY IN AFRICA: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 7 FOCUS ON CRITICISM: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALT 8 DRAMA IN AFRICA: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
ALTT 9 AFRICA, AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (PB)
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