Literature of Africa / Douglas Killam.
Looks at the work of ten African authors, including Chinua Achebe, Miriama Ba, Nadine Gordimer, and Alan Paton.
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Literature as windows to world cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Selected history of West African literature
- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) / Chinua Achebe
- Bride Tree (1976) and Joys of Motherhood (1979) / Buchi Emecheta
- Beautiful Ones are not yet Born (1968) / Ayi Kwei Armah
- So Long a Letter (1981) / Miriama Ba
- God's Bits of Wood (1962) / Sembene Ousmane
- Selected history of East African literature
- Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) / Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Selected history of South-Central African literature
- Selected history of South African literature and politics
- Burger's Daughter (1979) and House Gun (1988) / Nadine Gordimer
- In the Fog of the Season's End (1972), and Time of the Butcherbird (1979) / Alex La Guma
- Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) / Alan Paton
- When Rain Clouds Gather (1968) / Bessie Head.