Research in African literatures
Subtitle: the language question
By: Richard Bjornson, editor
Contributors: Modern Language Association of America. African Literatures Division; Bjornson, Richard
Series: Research in African literature -- 23; Research in African literatures -- 23.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: African literature; History and criticism
Notes: "Special issue: The language question" of Research in African Literature, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 1992.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: African-language literature: tragedy and hope / Daniel P. Kunene; title: The African writer's tongue / Akinwumi Isola; title: Problems in African literature / Mazisi Kunene; title: Language and development strategy in pan-African literary experience / Kofi Anyidoho; title: Relativism, universalism, and the language of African literature / Alamin Mazrui; title: The African-language policy of development: African national languages / Gabriel Ruhumbika; title: Language, identity, and social construction in African literatures / Oyekan Owomoyela; title: "They stooped to conquer": vernacular translation and the socio-cultural factor / Lamin Sanneh; title: Forked tongues, marginal bodies: writing as translation in Khatibi / James McGuire; title: Ideophones and African verse / Lupenga Mphande; title: Ngũgĩ's conversion: writing and the politics of language / Simon Gikandi; title: Language in African literature: an aside to Ngũgĩ / Joseph Mbele; title: The language of African literature: a writer's testimony / Ken Saro-Wiwa; title: Choice of language and African literature: a bibliographic essay / David Westley; title: Language and national identity: Amharic in Ethiopia / Jack Fellman