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" The African imagination : "
F. Abiola Irele
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BL
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Record Number
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712327
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b534516
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Main Entry
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Irele, Abiola
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Title & Author
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The African imagination : : literature in Africa the Black diaspora /\ F. Abiola Irele
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Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2001
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Page. NO
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xxi, 296 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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019508618X
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: 0195086198
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: 9780195086188
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: 9780195086195
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and index
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Contents
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The African imagination -- Orality, literacy, and African literature -- African letters: the making of a tradition -- Dimensions of African discourse -- Study in ambiguity: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's The fortunes of Wangrin -- Narrative, history and the African imagination: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnè, outrages et défis -- The crisis of cultural memory in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- Return of the native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks -- A national voice: the poetry and plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo -- Parables of the African condition: the new realism in African fiction
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Subject
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African diaspora
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African literature-- History and criticism
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Literature and society-- Africa
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Diaspora
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Letterkunde
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Dewey Classification
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809/.896
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LC Classification
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PL8010.I74 2001
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