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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 January 2010
      23 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9781139002608
      9780521855600
      9780521671682
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521855600
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 306 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.

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    '… an impressive team of contributors, with a fine balance of African, North American and European, Anglophone and Francophone scholars.'

    Source: SCOLMA

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