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African Literature
African Novel
Alex la Guma
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Ayi Kwei Armah
Buchi Emecheta
Burger's Daughter
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Chinua Achebe
Devil on the Cross
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In the Fog of the Seasons' End
Keith Booker
Nadine Gordimer
Nervous Conditions
Ngugi wa Thiongo
Our Sister Killjoy
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Joys of Motherhood
Things Fall Apart
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Product details
- ISBN 9780852555521
- Weight: 314g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1998
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this volume Keith Booker provides an introduction to eight African novels written in English.
The rise to global prominence of African literature, and particularly of the African novel, has been seen by many as a vital development in contemporary world culture. Keith Booker examines are: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood ; Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born; Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter; Alex la Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End; Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions.
Booker uses these works to illustrate the scope and variety of the African novel and the aesthetic, cultural and political concerns that have motivated African authors. The text concludes that Americans and Europeans have every reason to study the African novel, and in so doing they will become familiar with one of the mostpowerful cultural forces in the late-20th-century world.
North America: Heinemann
