Eastern African literatures : towards an aesthetics of proximity /
The book offers an overview of eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specifi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English.
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| Summary: | The book offers an overview of eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It shows how proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to eastern African literary production. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 219 pages : maps ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198745729 9780198745723 |