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Title:

Tongue and mother tongue : African literature and the perpetual quest for identity / edited by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith and Daniel P. Kunene.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

205 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

African literature--History and criticism.
Anthropological linguistics.
Africa--Languages.

Other Authors:

Smith, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi.
Kunene, Daniel P.
African Literature Association. Meeting (16th : 1990 : University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Notes:

"16th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from April 4 to 7, 1990." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Creating in the mother tongue -- Ngugi's conversion: writing and the politics of language -- Relativism, universalism and the language of African literature -- Language in African literature: an aside to Ngugi -- Ideophones and African verse -- Forked tongues, marginal bodies: writings as translation in Khatibi -- Socialist realism and African knowledge -- On Yoruba "vernacular" tropes -- Literary history of Yoruba literature: the African writer's tongue -- Review essay: the language of head calling -- Animal imagery in Richard Wright and Alex La Guma -- Oppressed/oppressor: visual language as metaphors of seperation in La Guma and Wright -- Multiple-perspective narration & apartheid: Gordimer's Something out there and La Guma's Time of the butcherbird -- "A perverse kind of truth": imagining the impossible in Lewis Nkosi's Mating birds -- Revelation through trickery: Ferdinand Oyono's Le vieux nègre et la médaille and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow.

Series:

Annual selected papers of the ALA ; no. 10

ISBN:

9780865439962
0865439966

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50707216

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)