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| Title: | 'Who am I?' Fact and fiction in African first-person narrative |
| Author: | Schipper, M. |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 53-79 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | novels diaries (form) letters (form) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3819762 |
| Abstract: | The author's intention is to discuss the first-person narrative form, its main genres and various techniques, as they are used in African literature. Sections: 'who speaks?' and 'who sees?' - different first-person genres - diary and diary novel - letters and the epistolary novel - autobiography and the memoir novel. Notes. |
