African Novels in the Classroom / / ed. by Margaret Jean Hay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Akyeampong, Emmanuel,; Ambler, Charles,; Bastian, Misty L.,; Berger, Iris,; Bowman, Joye,; Bravman, Bill,; Cooper, Barbara M.,; Cordell, Dennis D.,; Giles-Vernick, Tamara,; Greene, Sandra E.,; Hay, Margaret Jean,; Kapteijns, Lidwien,; Keim, Curtis A.,; Keim, Karen R.,; Klein, Martin A.,; Mack, Beverly B.,; Monson, Jamie,; Montgomery, Mary,; Page, Melvin E.,; Penvenne, Jeanne,; Pritchett, James A.,; Rathbone, Richard,; Sheldon, Kathleen,; Spleth, Janice,; Topan, Farouk,
• HerausgeberIn: Hay, Margaret Jean ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

Experienced college teachers describe in practical detail how they use novels to great advantage in teaching African studies.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Peter Abrahams’s A Wreath for Udomo
• 2 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
• 3 Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
• 4 Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
• 5 Driss Chraïbi’s Mother Comes of Age
• 6 Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita
• 7 Maryse Condé’s Segu
• 8 Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
• 9 Modikwe Dikobe’s The Marabi Dance
• 10 Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
• 11 Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl
• 12 Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts
• 13 Elsa Joubert’s Poppie Nongena
• 14 J. Nozipo Maraire’s Zenzele: Letters to My Daughter
• 15 Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road
• 16 Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
• 17 Djibril Tamsir Niane’s Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
• 18 Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
• 19 Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy
• 20 Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
• 21 Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood
• 22 Wole Soyinka’s Ake: The Years of Childhood
• 23 Moyez G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack
• 24 P. T. Zeleza’s Smouldering Charcoal
• Novels by Region
• Novels by Principal Themes
• The Contributors
• About the Book