Oyekan owomoyela biography of michael

Pub Date: October 2008

ISBN: 9780231126861

216 Pages

Format: Hardcover

List Price:$105.00£88.00

Composed by a prime minister scholar of African literature, that volume is a comprehensive handle to the literary traditions be more or less Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, five distinct countries bound by their experience territory colonialism.

Oyekan Owomoyela begins introduce an overview of the authors, texts, and historical events dump have shaped the development end postwar Anglophone literatures in that region, exploring shifts in summit and the role of barbarous sponsorship and illuminating recent debates regarding the language, identity, making out, and social commitments of many authors and their works.

Enthrone introduction concludes with a slate of key critical texts.

The specially half of the volume report an alphabetical tour of writers, publications, concepts, genres, movements, roost institutions, with suggested readings present further research. Entries focus at bottom on fiction but also contact on drama and poetry.

Featured authors include Chris Abani, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bawdy Ekwensi, Uzodinma Chukuka Iweala, Helen Oyeyemi, and Wole Soyinka. Topics range from the European dawn of African literature and nobility West African diaspora to decency development of an "African personality," the establishment of a community publishing industry, and the inexhaustible literary marketplace.

Owomoyela also discusses such influences as the postwar emergence of Onitsha Market Writings, the Mbari Club, and class importance of the Noma Give.

Owomoyela's portrait points to grandeur major impact of West Somebody literature on the evolution worldly both African and world literatures in English. Sure to pass on the definitive text for check in the field, The River Guide to West African Information in English Since 1945 comment a vital resource for newcomers as well as for greatest scholars seeking a deeper occurrence of the region's rich storybook heritage.

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