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E N. Emenyonu - ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today - 9781847010971 - V9781847010971
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ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today

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Description for ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today Paperback. Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Series: African Literature Today. Num Pages: 211 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the early Europeans acting on God's behalf, delivered them." That assertion included a still reverberating sentiment shared by many of the first generation of African writers that it is possible to reclaim that distorted past creatively in order to show and understand "where andwhen the rain started beating Africa". ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
James Currey
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847010971
SKU
V9781847010971
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Ref
99-50

About E N. Emenyonu
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies ... Read more

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