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160 Pages
21.6 x 13.8 cm
Series: African Literature Today
Series Vol. Number:
22
Imprint: James Currey
ALT 22 Exile and African Literature
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This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, CatherineAcholonu and Buchi Emecheta.
This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, CatherineAcholonu and Buchi Emecheta.
North America: Africa World Press
This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, CatherineAcholonu and Buchi Emecheta.
North America: Africa World Press
"The concept of exile proves to be elastic, capable of covering political expulsion from the nation, region or language of one's birth, to economically enforced migration, to an inner kind of exile from one's self and surroundings more or less synonymous with psychological alienation and social anomie...one of the most admirable features of this volume and its precursors in the African Literature Today series (edited diligently by Eldred Jones over the last thirty years or so), is its promotion of African literature on the continent, and of writers who have not found their way into some readily assimilable academic niche of postcolonial world literature in English." Simon Lewis, H-Net Africa
Paperback
9780852555224
January 2000
$29.95 / £19.99
Title Details
160 Pages
2.16 x 1.38 cm
Series: African Literature Today
Series Vol. Number:
22
Imprint: James Currey
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