The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

by F. Abiola Irele

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This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat B , and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195086198

ISBN13:9780195086195

Release Date:September 2001

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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