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Title:

The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanists and social scientists / edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxix, 272 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

African literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
African literature--Study and teaching.
Africa--In literature.
Literature and society--Africa.
Africa--Study and teaching.

Other Authors:

Julien, Eileen, 1949- editor.
Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

African literature and the social science paradigm / Simon Gikandi -- Forewords and foreskins : the author as ethnographer in African literature / Rhonda Cobham -- The invention of oral literature : epics from the Sudan-Sahelian zone / Mamadou Diouf -- Towards new readings of neo-traditional tales : Birago Diop through the prism of the local / Eileen Julien -- History, gender and the problem of representation in the novels of Yvonne Vera / Nana Wilson Tagoe -- Between fiction and history : modes of writing abortion in Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- On poetry and positivism : the quickening of the unknown / Jane I. Guyer -- Whose theatre, whose Africa? : Wole Soyinka's The road on the road / Biodun Jeyifo.

ISBN:

1592219209
9781592219209
1592219195
9781592219193

OCLC:

(OCoLC)822971445

LCCN:

2012043638

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)