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  title info:
    title: African literature as political philosophy
  name:
    name part: Okolo, M. S. C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 164 pages).
  abstract: African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. M.S.C. Okolo provides a thorough analysis of the authors' differing approaches and how these emerge from the literature. She shows the roots of Achebe's reformism and Ngugi's insistence on revolution and how these positions take shape in their work. Okolo argues that these authors have bee.
  table of contents: A Neglected Benefit -- Literature as Philosophy: A Theoretical Framework -- Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o as Political Thinkers -- Achebe's Reformist Agenda in Anthills of the Savannah -- Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics -- Achebe and Ngugi on the African Condition -- Which Way for Africa Introduction: A Neglected Benefit -- Literature as Philosophy: A Theoretical Framework -- Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o as Political Thinkers -- Achebe's Reformist Agenda in Anthills of the Savannah -- Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics -- Achebe and Ngugi on the African Condition -- Which Way for Africa.
  note: M.S.C. Okolo.
  note: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
  note: Also published in printing.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Achebe, Chinua
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
      name part: 1938-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Armah, Ayi Kwei
      name part: 1939-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Soyinka, Wole
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: African literature (English)
    topic: Black authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Black
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Black
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
    geographic: Africa
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literary studies: general
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: In literature
  classification: PR9340.5 .O56 2007eb
  classification: 820.9/96
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    origin info:
      publisher: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA Books ; London ; New York : In Association with Zed Books Ltd. ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
    identifier: (DLC) 2007014677
    identifier: (OCoLC)122974244
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  access condition: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
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    record creation date: 210311
    record change date: 20240130221422.9
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng