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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A Casebook
Av Orin Hargraves, Isidore Okpewho
Inbunden, 2003
3337 kr
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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial …
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
785 kr
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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial …
African Oral Literature
Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity
Häftad, 1992
351 kr
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". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." —Reviews in Anthropology" . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral …
African Diaspora
African Origins and New World Identities
Av Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
402 kr
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The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition. Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, …
New African Diaspora
Av Isidore Okpewho, Nkiru Nzegwu
Häftad, 2009
399 kr
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The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational …
Myth in Africa
Häftad, 1983
538 kr
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In Africa the past and the present live very much side by side. African thinkers and intellectuals see their people's culture as rooted in time-honoured oral traditions and many African writers today use symbols, images and motifs from these traditions in their works. In this innovative study Dr …
Blood on the Tides
The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology
Häftad, 2014
172 kr
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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Examines the Ozidi Saga -- one of Africa's best-known epics -- as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Niger Delta.
