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| Title: | New directions in African literature: a review |
| Editors: | Emenyonu, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Patricia T. |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | African Literature Today (ISSN 0065-4000) |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | literature women writers 2000-2009 |
| Abstract: | This volume provides an overview of the position of African literature at the end of the 20th century and an examination of the directions that African literature is now taking with new and emerging writers and the growth of writing by African women. Editorial article: New directions in African literature: building on the legacies of the 20th century (Ernest N. Emenyonu). Contributions: African literature in the 21st century: challenges for writers & critics (Charles E. Nnolim); Bursting at the seams: new dimensions for African literature in the 21st century (Thomas A. Hale); New trends in the Sierra Leonean novel: tradition & change in novels by Alasan Mansaray and J. Sorie Conteh (Eustace Palmer); Transcultural identity in African narratives of childhood (Richard K. Priebe); The marks left on the surface: Zoë Wicomb's 'David's story' (Kenneth W. Harrow); Mothering daughters & the other side of the story in Amma Darko, Ama Ata Aidoo & Nozipo Maraire (Monica Bungaro); Transcending the margins: new directions in women's writing (Iniobong I. Uko); Re-thinking nation & narrative in a global era: recent African writing (Nana Wilson-Tagoe); A last shot at the 20th-century canon (Bernth Lindfors). [ASC Leiden abstract] |