"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.
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