Add to ORKGThe sub-title of this enigmatic book is A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing. The first of the two parts of the books deals primarily with definitions of Marxist aesthetics. For a serious work, not only are the cliches and terminology tiresome but the choice of quotations is unfortunate. Ngara quotes Marx\u27s and Engel\u27s opinion that Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte and Gaskell wrote novels whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together. Ngara adds a pronouncement from Mao Tse-Tung on art and literature: ... all literature and art belong to definite political lines. There i...
African literature evolved largely as a reaction to the colonial presence in Africa and expectedly i...
Critics tend to generalise in their analysis of African literature by presenting it from two main an...
Review of 'The Changing Face of African Literature' ed. by Bernard De Meyer and Neil ten Kortenaar
At a time when African writers and critics are deliberately engaged in a search for a matrix within ...
This book, Decolonising the Mind, is my farewell to English as a vehicle for any of my writings. Fro...
The two professors of English at Nigerian universities who jointly prepared this small book did thre...
The post-colonial African novelist is committed beyond his/her art to a statement of value. Thus he ...
Review of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davi
book review of Xavier Garnier''s "The Swahili novel. The notion of \''minor literature'' put to the ...
This book is the product of research which the author, Paul Clough, carried out over more than twent...
James Ngugi without question is Kenya\u27s most prominent and most highly regarded novelist to date....
The purpose of this study is an examination of modern Anglophone African literature of the post-Inde...
The manner in which the European views the African coloured their perception of our life, culture an...
Bibliography: leaves 219-229.This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
African literature evolved largely as a reaction to the colonial presence in Africa and expectedly i...
Critics tend to generalise in their analysis of African literature by presenting it from two main an...
Review of 'The Changing Face of African Literature' ed. by Bernard De Meyer and Neil ten Kortenaar
At a time when African writers and critics are deliberately engaged in a search for a matrix within ...
This book, Decolonising the Mind, is my farewell to English as a vehicle for any of my writings. Fro...
The two professors of English at Nigerian universities who jointly prepared this small book did thre...
The post-colonial African novelist is committed beyond his/her art to a statement of value. Thus he ...
Review of African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium by Bernth Lindfors and Geoffrey V. Davi
book review of Xavier Garnier''s "The Swahili novel. The notion of \''minor literature'' put to the ...
This book is the product of research which the author, Paul Clough, carried out over more than twent...
James Ngugi without question is Kenya\u27s most prominent and most highly regarded novelist to date....
The purpose of this study is an examination of modern Anglophone African literature of the post-Inde...
The manner in which the European views the African coloured their perception of our life, culture an...
Bibliography: leaves 219-229.This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
African literature evolved largely as a reaction to the colonial presence in Africa and expectedly i...
Critics tend to generalise in their analysis of African literature by presenting it from two main an...
Review of 'The Changing Face of African Literature' ed. by Bernard De Meyer and Neil ten Kortenaar