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The Oxford History Of The Novel In Engl
Simon . Ed(S): Gikandi
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Hardback. The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English. Editor(s): Gikandi, Simon. Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 185 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1104.
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and ... Read more
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Series
Oxford History of the Novel in English
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199765096
SKU
V9780199765096
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99-21
About Simon . Ed(S): Gikandi
Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His previous books include Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011), Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2004), Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (1992), and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996),. He is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature (2009) and was ... Read more
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