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The Question of language in African literature today : borrowing and carrying : a review / editor, Eldred Durosimi Jones ; associate editor, Eustace Palmer ; editorial assistant, Marjorie Jones.

Title
The Question of language in African literature today : borrowing and carrying : a review / editor, Eldred Durosimi Jones ; associate editor, Eustace Palmer ; editorial assistant, Marjorie Jones.
Publication
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, Inc., 1991.

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Additional Authors
Jones, Eldred D.
Description
ix, 182 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
African literature today ; v. 17
Uniform Title
African literature today ; no. 17.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Style and purpose in Armah's Two thousand seasons / A. N. Mensah -- Things fall apart revisited : a semantic and stylistic study of character in Achebe / A. Lekan Oyeleye -- Language and characterization in Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the city and Jagua Nana / N. F. Inyama -- Technique and language in Ubesie's fiction / Ernest Emenyonu -- Language, literature and the struggle for liberation in South Africa / Daniel P. Kunene -- Linguistic characteristics of the African short story / F. Odun Balogun -- Language, ideology, desire : rereading Soyinka's The road / Simon Gikandi -- Theme and language in Soyinka's Madmen and specialists / Obi Maduakor -- Truth from contraries : a study of form in the work of Femi Osofisan / Chris Dunton.
  • Language pluralism in Sierra Leonean drama in Krio / Julius Spencer -- Guillaume Oyono-Mbia : a bilingual playwright / Unionmwan Edebiri -- Graphology and meaning in the poetry of Chrisopher Okigbo / Modupe Olaogun -- From rhetoric to occultism : the word as music and drama in Okigbo's Labyrinths -- The rhetoric of J. P. Clark's Ivbie / Isaac I. Elimimian -- Dimensions of language in New Nigerian poetry / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- The language of post-war Nigerian poetry of English expression / J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada.
ISBN
0865432147
LCCN
90064141
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries