Research Catalog

Title

Literature of Africa / Douglas Killam.

Author

Killam, G. D.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 204 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Looks at the work of ten African authors, including Chinua Achebe, Miriama Ba, Nadine Gordimer, and Alan Paton.

Series Statement

Literature as windows to world cultures, 1543-9968

Uniform Title

Literature as windows to world cultures

Subject

African literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Selected history of West African literature -- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) / Chinua Achebe -- Bride Tree (1976) and Joys of Motherhood (1979) / Buchi Emecheta -- Beautiful Ones are not yet Born (1968) / Ayi Kwei Armah -- So Long a Letter (1981) / Miriama Ba -- God's Bits of Wood (1962) / Sembene Ousmane -- Selected history of East African literature -- Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Selected history of South-Central African literature -- Selected history of South African literature and politics -- Burger's Daughter (1979) and House Gun (1988) / Nadine Gordimer -- In the Fog of the Season's End (1972), and Time of the Butcherbird (1979) / Alex La Guma -- Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) / Alan Paton -- When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) / Bessie Head.

ISBN

0313319014

LCCN

2004013212^^

OCLC

• 55616667
• SCSB-12733628

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library