The child in African literature
Subtitle: a study of prose narratives
By: V. Onyema Chukwu.
Publisher: West and Solomon Publishing Coy. Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Onitsha, [Nigeria]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: African literature -- History and criticism; Children in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch.1. Introduction; title: ch. 2. The child and literature in pro-colonial Africa: a survey of poetry and drama; title: ch. 3. Fireside and moonlight: narratives in pre-colonial Africa; title: ch. 4. Boys of the colony in Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy and Mongo Beti's The poor Christ of Bomba; title: ch. 4. The wages of parent-hood in John Munonye's The only son and Oil man of Obange; title: ch. 6. Children of war: readings of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep not, child and Menankiti Onyekwelu's Fugutive in Biafra; title: ch. 7. African female writers and the theme of child abuse; title: ch. 8. Girls and foster-mothers: a study of Menankiti Onyekwelu's The maids are not to blame and Jude C. Ogu's Born to win; title: ch. 9. Wanderers about the woods: Iweka Ude's Triumph of innocence and Yusuf Idris' The stranger; title: Selected bibliography; title: Author's index.