Gareth Griffiths

African Literatures in English

East and West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Longman Literature in English Series General Editors: David Carroll, University of Lancaster; Michael Wheeler, University of Southampton; Chris Walsh, Chester College of Higher Education The Longman Literature in English Series provides students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical context. As well as studies on all periods of English and American literature, the series includes books on criticism and literary theory, the intellectual and cultural context, and other literatures in English. Each of the volumes contains an extensive reference section. When complete, the series will offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. >The author surveys the main forces of patronage through which this writing developed during its different historical phases, and their relations with existing forms and themes. The book also offers close readings of many of the magnificent English language African texts, from Equiano in the late eighteenth century to Emecheta and Ngugi in the present day. It introduces students to a wide range of the writers, genres and individual works to emerge from the regions, and also provides an overview of the main events and forces which have shaped the writing. Offering a chronology of literary and historical events, an extensive bibliography and biographical notes on individual authors, this text provides students with a fascinating historical and sociological overview of the literature in English from East and West Africa. Gareth Griffiths is Professor and Chair of English Studies in the Department of English, University of Western Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780582089266
• ISBN-10: 0582089263
• Artikelnr.: 39292968

Autorenporträt

Gareth Griffiths

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Patronage and the development of East and West African English
writing. 1. 18th and 19th Century Slave Narratives of the Black Diaspora 2.
19th and Early 20th Century Histories, Travel Accounts, Political Writing
and the Beginnings of Fiction 3. 19th and 20th Century Missionary-Writing
Testements and Writings by Africans Produced Under Missionary Auspices and
Control 4. 20th Century Secular Patronage: Literature, Education and
Control
5. 20th Century Popular Culture and English Writing in Africa Dominant
themes and Patterns in East and West African Writing in English 6.
Alternatives: Contrasting Themes and Patterns in Post-Independence Africa
Writing in English
7. Self-Criticism and Post-Independence Disillusion 8. Opposition,
Resistance and Decolonisation 9. Internal Discord. Alternative Voices in
East and West African English Writing. 10. Minority Voices: English Writing
in Non-Anglophone East and West African Countries 11. Women's Voices:
Gendered Pasts, Liberated Futures 12. New Transcultural Voices in East and
West African Writing References. Chronology of Literary and Historical
Events
General Bibliography Individual Authors: Notes on Biography, Works and
Criticism