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Title:Dark edge of African literature
Editors:Ce, Chin
Smith, CharlesISNI
Year:2010
Pages:170
Language:English
Series:African library of critical writing
City of publisher:Milton Keynes
Publisher:Lightning Source
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:literature
literary criticism
political violence
Abstract:The theme of this collective volume is the representation of conflict and violence in African literature. It contains chapters on Somali, Kenyan, Nigerian, Angolans, and Sudanese writers. Authors: J. Ushie, C. Logan (on Nuruddin Farah's 'Maps'), O. Akinola (on African playwrights), A. Kehinde (on Mau Mau in the works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Meja Mwangi), J. Corrado (on Angolan literature, D. Sanyal (on violence as metaphor in Chin Ce's prose fiction), O.A. Ayinde (on conflict in Khalid Ibrahim Uways' novel 'al-Ruqs taht al-Matar', Danc eunder the rain, 2001). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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