Tell Me Africa : : An Approach to African Literature / / James Olney.
James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical&...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1974 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1389 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introduction and Methodology
- 1. African Autobiography and the Non-African Reader
- 2. Children of Gikuyu and Mumbi
- 3. "Ces pays lointains"
- 4. Love, Sex, and Procreation
- 5. Pornography, Philosophy, and African History
- 6. Politics, Creativity, and Exile
- Anti-Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index