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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie Newell (Reader in English Literature, University of Sussex)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.428kg ISBN: 9780199298877ISBN 10: 0199298874 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 08 June 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsWest African Timeline Introduction: Where is 'West Africa'? 1: Négritude 2: Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature 3: Oral Literatures 4: Lost and Found in Translation 5: Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in the Colonial-Scape 6: Popular Literature 7: Griots with Pens in their Hands: Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s-1990s 8: Feminism and the Complex Space of Women's Writing 9: Marxism and West African Literature 10: The Three 'Posts': Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism 11: Experimental Writing by the 'Third Generation' 12: 'Queering' West African Gender Theory: Calixthe Beyala, Werewere Liking, and Véronique Tadjo Conclusion: West Africa in Postcolonial TheoryReviewsThe first books in this series are exemplary. Newell, Patke, and Keown all achieve the difficult task of combining accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative introductions to particular areas and genres with new perspectives and fresh insights into specific texts. I found them remarkably readable and rewarding. * Lyn Innes, Professor Emerita, University of Kent * The first books in this series are exemplary. Newell, Patke, and Keown all achieve the difficult task of combining accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative introductions to particular areas and genres with new perspectives and fresh insights into specific texts. I found them remarkably readable and rewarding. Lyn Innes, Professor Emerita, University of Kent Author InformationStephanie Newell is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include West African literature, African newspaper culture, African readerships, and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on African popular culture and West African newspaper history. Her most recent books include two studies of West African popular literature and a queer history of colonial West Africa, The Forger's Tale: The Search for 'Odeziaku'. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |