Readings in African Popular Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-85255-564-4
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Readings in...

Draws together primary texts and a range of analytical perspectives on African popular fiction.

Broadening the view of what is considered to be African literature this text brings together examples from a wide range of African popular fiction and provides a useful reference tool for students.
Includes eight primary texts including examples from Drum magazine, Alex la Guma's Little Libby - the comic strips of the Adventures of Liberation Chabalala, and extracts from popular fiction novels, novellas and short stories.
Contributors also examine the social, political and economic contexts of popular narratives.

STEPHANIE NEWELL is now Professor of English at the University of Sussex
Contributors include: GRAHAM FURNISS, BRAIN LARKIN, DONATUS NWOGA, MISTY BASTIAN, ALAIN RICARD, RAOUL GRANQVISt, BERNTH LINDFORS, BODIL FOLKE FREDERIKSEN, J. ROGER KURTZ & ROBERT M. KURTZ, NICI NELSON, DOROTHY DRIVER, NJABULO NDEBELE, ROGER FIELD, SARAH NUTTALL

Published inassociation with the International African Institute
North America: Indiana U Press

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newell, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Newell, Stephanie
STEPHANIE NEWELL is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.