African literature
Alex la Guma
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Drum magazine
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Liberation Chabalala
Novellas
Novels
Political contexts
Popular fiction
Short stories
Social contexts
Product details
- ISBN 9780852555644
- Weight: 504g
- Dimensions: 215 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Draws together primary texts and a range of analytical perspectives on African popular fiction.
Broadening the view of what is considered to be African literature this text brings together examples from a wide range of African popular fiction and provides a useful reference tool for students.
Includes eight primary texts including examples from Drum magazine, Alex la Guma's Little Libby - the comic strips of the Adventures of Liberation Chabalala, and extracts from popular fiction novels, novellas and short stories.
Contributors also examine the social, political and economic contexts of popular narratives.
STEPHANIE NEWELL is now Professor of English at the University of Sussex
Contributors include: GRAHAM FURNISS, BRAIN LARKIN, DONATUS NWOGA, MISTY BASTIAN, ALAIN RICARD, RAOUL GRANQVISt, BERNTH LINDFORS, BODIL FOLKE FREDERIKSEN, J. ROGER KURTZ & ROBERT M. KURTZ, NICI NELSON, DOROTHY DRIVER, NJABULO NDEBELE, ROGER FIELD, SARAH NUTTALL
Published inassociation with the International African Institute
North America: Indiana U Press
Stephanie Newell is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.
