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1034487
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b788857
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Newell, Stephanie,1968-
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| Title & Author
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West African literatures : : ways of reading /\ Stephanie Newell.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English
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1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) :: maps.
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| ISBN
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019153837X
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: 9780191538377
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: 9780199273973
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: 9780199298877
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: 9786610905737
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0199273979
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0199298874
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9780199273973
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9780199298877
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Where is West Africa? -- Negritude -- Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature -- Oral Literatures -- Lost and Found in Translation -- Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the ColonialScape -- Popular Literature -- Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s1990s -- Feminism and the Complex Space of Womens Writing -- Marxism and West African Literature -- The Three Posts: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism -- Experimental Writing by the Third Generation -- Queering West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking and Vronique Tadjo -- Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial Theory.
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| Abstract
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West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopaedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism. - ;The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This stud.
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West African literature (English)-- History and criticism.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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West African literature (English)
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Engels.
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Frans.
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Letterkunde.
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Africa, West, In literature.
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Africa, West, Intellectual life.
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West Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/966 22
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| LC Classification
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PR9340.5.N49 2006eb
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| NLM classification
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17.76bcl
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17.76.bcl
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