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Charles R. LarsonPublication Details
BookZed Books2001Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR9340 .L37 2001 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers–like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka–have become known outside of their own continent. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- 1. The Example of Amos Tutuola: Accidental Artist of Really Writer?
- 2. ‘Talking with Paper’ is Only the Beginning. Onitsha Market Literature. Audience. Language. Economics. Appropriation and other impediments
- 3. African Writers and the Quest for Publication. Cyprian Ekwensi (Negeria). Similih M. Cordor (Liberia). Veronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast). Elinor Sisulu (Zimbabwe/South Africa). Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe)
- 4. African Publishers, African Publishing. The Zimbabwe International Book Fair. Publishing in Kenya. The African bestseller? Baobab Books
- 5. ‘The Horror, the Horror’. Camara Laye: death of the artist. Censorship. Imprisonment. Exile. The death of Ken Saro-Wiwa
- Conclusion: The Crisis in African Writing
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- 1856499316
- 1856499308
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