TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irele,Abiola
TI  - The Cambridge companion to the African novel
SN  - 9780521671682 (pbk.)
U1  - 809.30096 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - African fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - November2015
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - Reading book
N1  - First published 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: perspectives on the African novel / F. Abiola Irele -- The oral-literate interface / Olakunle George -- Chinua Achebe and the African novel / Dan Izevbaye -- Protest and resistance / Barbara Harlow -- The Afrikaans novel / Christopher Warnes -- The African novel in Arabic / Shaden M. Tageldin -- The francophone novel in North Africa / Bernard Aresu -- The francophone novel in sub-Saharan Africa / Lydie Moudileno -- The African historical novel / M. Keith Booker -- Magical realism and the African novel / Ato Quayson -- The African novel and the feminine condition / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- Autobiography and Bildungsroman in African literature / Apollo Amoko -- The postcolonial condition / Phyllis Taoua -- New voices, emerging themes / Dominic Thomas -- The critical reception of the African novel / Harry Garuba
N2  - This volume provides an overview of the key novels and novelists of the continent, covering multiple cultures and languages
ER  -