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  • The Literary History of the Igbo Novel
    Ernest N. Emenyonu
    This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo Novel from its antecedents in oral and performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. ...
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    80,42 €

  • Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Ernest N Emenyonu
    Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preemin...
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  • ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice
    Ernest N Emenyonu
    Many African writers have illustrated through their work different understandings of Chinua Achebe’s reference to 'where and when the rain started beating Africa'. These works have recalled, recorded and reconfigured that past and taken the debate forward in its complex engagement with the critical issues of politics and social justice in the contemporary postcolonial/neocoloni...
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    26,69 €

  • Omenuko
    Pita Nwana / Ernest N. Emenyonu / Ernest NEmenyonu
    Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as a favourite attraction for tourists in the decades before and after the Nigerian Independence in 1960. Generations of Igbo children began their reading in Igbo with Omenụkọ, and those who did not have the opportunity to go t...
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    22,08 €

  • Alt 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story
    Ernest N. Emenyonu
    African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the African short story is now given the attention it deserves. Contributors here take a close look at the African short story to re-define its own ...
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    26,80 €

  • Alt 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
    Ernest N Emenyonu
    This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic ...
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  • Alt 25 New Directions in African Literature
    Ernest N. Emenyonu
    Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in t...
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    23,19 €

  • Alt 24 New Women’s Writing in African Literature
    Ernest N. Emenyonu
    African women writers have come a long way from the sixties when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in ficti...
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    23,06 €