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Postcolonial literature and the impact of literacy : reading and writing in African and Caribbean fiction

Title
Postcolonial literature and the impact of literacy : reading and writing in African and Caribbean fiction / Neil ten Kortenaar.
Author
Kortenaar, Neil ten.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description
viii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Commonwealth fiction (English) > History and criticism
  • Literacy in literature
  • African fiction (English) > History and criticism
  • Caribbean fiction (English) > History and criticism
  • Postcolonialism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe -- The contents of the tin trunk: Sarà by Wole Soyinka -- Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul -- Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber -- Southern Africa's houses of hunger.
Call Number
Sc E 11-809
ISBN
  • 9781107008670 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1107008670 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011008032
OCLC
706677558
Author
Kortenaar, Neil ten.
Title
Postcolonial literature and the impact of literacy : reading and writing in African and Caribbean fiction / Neil ten Kortenaar.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 11-809
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