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Title:

Emerging African voices : a study of contemporary African literature / edited by Walter P. Collins, III.

Publisher:

Cambria Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xviii, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
African literature (French)--21st century--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Collins, Walter P.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Global Specters: child soldiers in the post-national fiction of Uzodinma Iweala and Chris Abani / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Chapter 2: "Breaking Gods": the narrator as revelator and critic of the postcolonial condition in purple hibiscus / Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- Chapter 3: Negotiating Nigeria: connecting Chris Abani's GraceLand to Africa's past / Veronica C. Hendrick -- Chapter 4: Fatou Diome's Black Atlantic: re-inscribing anti-imperialism / Katherine Farley Galvagni -- Chapter 5: Helon Habila's neoliberal Nigeria: free markets and subordinate cultures in waiting for an angel / David Cockley -- Chapter 6: The novel architecture of Phaswane Mpe's welcome to our Hillbrow / Timothy Johns -- Chapter 7: The allegory of self and other In Soyinka's The Lion and the jewel and Okesipe's Professor's last death / Akinola Oriola -- Chapter 8: Ogaga Ifowodo and the oral tradition: an analysis of form and socio-political issues in Madiba / Dikě Okoro -- Chapter 9: Fresh "Cultural Critiques": the ethnographic fabulations of Adichie and Oyeyemi / R. Victoria Arana.

ISBN:

1604976640 (alk. paper)
9781604976649 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)463307664

LCCN:

2009046260

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)