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The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanities and social science scholars / edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo.

Title
The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanities and social science scholars / edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo.
Publication
Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors
  • Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
  • Julien, Eileen, 1949-
Description
xxix, 272 pages; 22 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
African literature and the social science paradigm / Simon Gikandi -- Forewords and foreskins : the author as ethnographer in African literature / Rhonda Cobham -- The invention of oral literature : epics from the Sudan-Sahelian zone / Mamadou Diouf -- Towards new readings of neo-traditional tales : Birago Diop through the prism of the local / Eileen Julien -- History, gender and the problem of representation in the novels of Yvonne Vera / Nana Wilson Tagoe -- Between fiction and history : modes of writing abortion in Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- On poetry and positivism : the quickening of the unknown / Jane I. Guyer -- Whose theatre, whose Africa? : Wole Soyinka's The road on the road / Biodun Jeyifo.
ISBN
  • 9781592219193
  • 1592219195
  • 9781592219209
  • 1592219209
LCCN
^^2012043638