The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature

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Edited by F. Abiola Irele, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2008
Print publication year:: 2000
Online ISBN:: 9781139054638
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521832755

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, Computational Linguistics, American Studies, Language and Linguistics
Collection:: Cambridge Histories - Literature

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Frontmatter
pp i-xlii

1 - Africa and orality
pp 1-18

2 - The folktale and its extensions
pp 19-34

3 - Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa
pp 35-48

4 - Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa
pp 49-70

5 - Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa
pp 71-97

6 - African oral epics
pp 98-116

7 - The oral tradition in the African diaspora
pp 117-136

8 - Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama
pp 137-152

9 - Africa and writing
pp 153-163

10 - Ethiopian literature
pp 164-177

11 - African literature in Arabic
pp 178-198

12 - The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage
pp 199-226

13 - Africa and the European Renaissance
pp 227-237

14 - The literature of slavery and abolition
pp 238-254

15 - Discourses of empire
pp 255-288

16 - African-language literatures of southern Africa
pp 289-305

17 - Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ’s later novels
pp 306-328

18 - The emergence of written Hausa literature
pp 329-356

19 - Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama
pp 357-378

20 - African literature and the colonial factor
pp 379-397

21 - The formative journals and institutions
pp 398-407

22 - Literature in Afrikaans
pp 408-424

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