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Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature /

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This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures...

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Main Author: Amoko, Apollo Obonyo (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
History.
African Culture.
African History.
African Politics.
Cultural Anthropology.
Social Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
Ethnology > Africa.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Africa > History.
Africa > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages)
ISBN:9780230113985
DOI:10.1057/9780230113985