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The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature, edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi

Label
The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature, edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi
Table Of Contents
Volume1 : Africa and orality / LIZ GUNNER -- The folktale and its extensions / KWESI YANKAH -- Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / TEJUMOLA OLANIYAN -- Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / SABRA WEBBER -- Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / LUPENGA MPHANDE -- African oral epics / ISIDORE OKPEWHO -- The oral tradition in the African diaspora / MAUREEN WARNER-LEWIS -- Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / KEITH Q. WARNER -- Africa and writing / ALAIN RICARD -- Ethiopian literature / TEODROS KIROS -- African literature in Arabic / FARIDA ABU-HAIDAR -- The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage / ALAMIN M. MAZRUI -- Africa and the European Renaissance / SYLVIE KANDé -- The literature of slavery and abolition / MOIRA FERGUSON -- Discourses of empire / ROBERT ERIC LIVINGSTON -- African-language literatures of southern Africa / DANIEL P. KUNENE -- Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngugi's later novels / ANN BIERSTEKER -- The emergence of written Hausa literature / OUSSEINA ALIDOU -- Literature in Yoruba : poetry and prose ; traveling theater and modern drama / KARIN BARBER -- African literature and the colonial factor / SIMON GIKANDI -- The formative journals and institutions / MILTON KRIEGER -- Literature in Afrikaans / AMPIE COETZEEVolume 2 : East African literature in English / SIMON GIKANDI -- Anglophone literature of Central Africa / FLORA VEIT-WILD and ANTHONY CHENNELLS -- West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies / DAN IZEVBAYE -- South African literature in English / DAVID ATTWELL -- African literature in French : sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period / MILDRED MORTIMER -- North African literature in French / PATRICIA GEESEY -- Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean / BÉNÉDICTE MAUGUIÉRE -- African literature in Spanish / M’BARE N’GO -- African literature in Portuguese / RUSSELL G. HAMILTON -- Popular literature in Africa / ODE S. OGEDE -- Caribbean literature in French : origins and development / NICK NESBITT -- Caribbean literature in Spanish / LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT -- Anglophone Caribbean literature / ELAINE SAVORY -- The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement / F. ABIOLA IRELE -- Postcolonial Caribbean identities / J. MICHAEL DASH -- African literature and post-independence disillusionment / DEREK WRIGHT -- “Postcolonial” African and Caribbean literature / ADELE KING -- Modernism and Postmodernism in African literature / ATO QUAYSON
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