New Fiction in English from Africa.
The term 'recent' or 'new' covers novels and some short fiction published between 1980 and 1995, a period characterized by growing pessimism about the state of affairs in both East and West Africa. The section on South Africa deals more narrowly with the 1985-95 watershed marking...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1998. ©1998. |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction.
- Denise COUSSY: West Africa.
- I Past and Present.
- II The Civil War and its Aftermath.
- III A Popular Literature.
- IV The Seansons of Anatomy.
- Jacqueline BARDOLPH: East Africa: The Novel Since the Eighties.
- I Major Works and Displacement.
- II A Long Exile: Nuruddin Farah.
- III A Regional Literature. IV A Renewal of Themes.
- André VIOLA: South Africa: On the Way to Reconstruction.
- I Which Directions?
- II Searching for New Modes of Expression: Contemporary White Fiction.
- III The Reconstruction Debate.
- Works Cited.
- Index.