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Paperback The Ordeal of the African Writer Book

ISBN: 1856499316

ISBN13: 9781856499316

The Ordeal of the African Writer

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The literatures of the English language experienced an extraordinary transformation in the second half of the 20th century as a result of the creative energy released by decolonization. But as this book demonstrates, only a small number of African writers - Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah and Wole Soyinka - have become known outside their own continent. They also face - and this is the subject of this book - enormous obstacles within Africa...

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