Bibliography Of African Literatures
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Author | : Jonathan P. Smithe |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781590332900 |
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Author | : Peter Limb |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Area Bibliographies |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Provides extensive coverage of the writings of both established and promising new authors in all continental African countries and Madagascar. Arranged primarily by language, with emphasis on literatures in English and French.
Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1906924708 |
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author | : Simon Gikandi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134582234 |
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
Author | : Carol Sicherman |
Publisher | : London [England] ; New York : H. Zell Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
"...AN EXHAUSTIVE & COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY...AN ESSENTIAL ADDITION TO ANY COLLECTION THAT SUPPORTS UPPER-DIVISION UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE WORK IN AFRICAN LITERATURE OR AFRICAN STUDIES."--CHOICE. "...[AN] OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT...INDISPENSABLE RESEARCH TOOL."--MATATU. This comprehensive bibliography traces Ngugi's work from juvenalia through Matigari & covers the burgeoning world-wide criticism. It includes not only Ngugi's published works, but interviews, manuscripts & other published materials as well as nearly 1,400 articles & books. Four detailed indexes list authors, editors & translators; Ngugi's titles & all references to them; interviews & subjects. (BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICAN WRITTEN LITERATURE, 1)
Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | : Africana Pub. |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David J. Brindley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. Abiola Irele |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2009-07-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827707 |
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780852555750 |
This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.
Author | : Evan Mwangi |
Publisher | : African Perspectives |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472054198 |
Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature