Research Catalog

Title

Goatskin bags and wisdom : new critical perspectives on African literature / Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Author

Emeny̲onu, Ernest, 1939-

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xx, 393 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• African literature > History and criticism
• African literature > Appreciation
• Criticism > Africa > History
• National characteristics, African
• Africans > Race identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: a matter of commitment / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Trends in the criticism of African literature / Charles E. Nnolim -- African critics and the socio-cultural responses to African literature: implications for pragmatic criticism / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Beyond gender warfare and western ideologies: African feminism for the 21st century / Anthonia Akpabio Ekpa -- Making an impact: feminist literary studies at the University of Lagos / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo -- Discourse analysis and characterization in the novel / Ako Essien -- Nigerian literature and oral tradition / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada -- Tradition, Rotimi, and his audience / Sam Ukala -- R.E. Obeng's Eighteenpence: a critical study / S.K. Okleme -- Grappling with irony in the feminist text: the case of the The concubine / Virginia U. Ola -- Nigerian new female voices in social criticism: Ifeoma Okoye's Men without ears / B.E.C. Oguzie -- A reader's response to contemporary African short stories / Jasper Onuekwusi -- Society in Chukwuemeka Ike's fiction: a focus on The potter's wheel and Expo '77 / B.E.C. Oguzie -- Okpewho's victims: victims of art, not of fire / Sophia O. Ogwude -- Communicative competence and dialogue in bilingual novels: three Nigerian novels as case study / Ako Essien -- Artistic expression in Chinua Achebe's experiment with the English language in two novels / Dele Orisawayi -- On becoming a novelist: a novel reading of Chinua Achebe's A man of the people / Ada U. Azodo -- The man that is in ME: Chinua Achebe and the valorization of the human spirit / Clement A. Okafor -- Nurturing the cradle: Chinua Achebe's fiction for children / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- The eternal sojourner: Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man and his fiction / Augustine C. Okere -- Nigeria's new poets and violence / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya -- New Nigerian poetry in English and the theory of poetic language / Augustin C. Okere -- Fear and premonition in Ken Saro-Wiwa's poetry / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya -- Gabriel Okara as a war poet / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya -- Encounters with readers and critics / Chukwuemeka Ike -- The word, poetic vision and society / Gabriel Okara -- A writer's monologue / Ifeoma Okoye -- An interview with Chukwuemeka Ike / B.E.C. Oguzie -- Nationalism and the creative talent (an address to the Association of Nigerian authors) / Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Call Number

Sc E 00-196

ISBN

• 0865436703 (hb)
• 0865436711 (pb)

LCCN

99051367

OCLC

42643499

Author

Emeny̲onu, Ernest, 1939-

Title

Goatskin bags and wisdom : new critical perspectives on African literature / Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Imprint

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 00-196