The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanists and social scientists /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Julien, Eileen, 1949- (Editor), Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2016]
Subjects:	African literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. African literature > Study and teaching. Africa > In literature. Literature and society > Africa. Africa > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

African literature and the social science paradigm / Simon Gikandi
Forewords and foreskins : the author as ethnographer in African literature / Rhonda Cobham
The invention of oral literature : epics from the Sudan-Sahelian zone / Mamadou Diouf
Towards new readings of neo-traditional tales : Birago Diop through the prism of the local / Eileen Julien
History, gender and the problem of representation in the novels of Yvonne Vera / Nana Wilson Tagoe
Between fiction and history : modes of writing abortion in Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt
On poetry and positivism : the quickening of the unknown / Jane I. Guyer
Whose theatre, whose Africa? : Wole Soyinka's The road on the road / Biodun Jeyifo.