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The dark edge of African literature / Smith and Ce (ed.).
- Title
- The dark edge of African literature / Smith and Ce (ed.).
- Publication
- [Place of publication not identified] : African Library of Critical Writing, [2014]
- Nigeria : Progeny (Press) International for: African Books Network
- Oxford : Distribution in the US, UK, Europe, N. America (Canada) and Commonwealth countries by African Books Collective
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- Description
- 170 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Dark Edge of African literature proposes arguments and theories for interpretation or exposition of Africa's modern fictions irrespective of the language of narrative. It attempts to discern how such interpretation of contemporary history may be received from an African perspective and what the implications are for African cultures and literatures abound by such experience. Starting with a writers profile of twentieth century African dictatorships and the African writer critical approaches on Somali, Nigerian, Kenyan, Angolan, Sudanese literatures present many different, if often not recognised, materials on uprising and resistance to readers of African literature. The physical and psychological dislocation by war, the controversy about the relational quality and dependent nature of text on context, and the exigency that informs the deliberate distortions of certain figures and images by contemporary African writers are some of the issues covered in this volume."-- Page 4 of cover
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9783708554
- 9789783708556
- OCLC
- 878111879
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library