New directions in African fiction /
Wright, Derek.
New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-198) and index.
The postcolonial predicament, 1965-1970 -- Lyric fatalism and mystic utopianism: history as myth and ritual in Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother, and Wole Soyinka's Season of anomy -- Orature revisioned: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence and Ayi Kwei Armah's Two thousand seasons -- Orality and dictatorship: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and sour milk -- The African in white South African fiction: landscape and mythology in J.M. Coetzee's Life and times of Michael K -- A wounded nation: Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of thorns and Zimbabwe's legacies of
liberation -- Regurgitating colonialism: the feminist voice in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Ethnic voices: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Imagined and other worlds: magic history in Kojo Laing's Search sweet country and Ben Okri's The famished road -- Prospective: into the nineties.
African fiction (English)