The Question of language in African literature today
Subtitle: borrowing and carrying : a review
By: editor, Eldred Durosimi Jones ; associate editor, Eustace Palmer ; editorial assistant, Marjorie Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Eldred D.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: African literature today -- 17
Publisher: Africa World Press, Inc.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Trenton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: African literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Style and purpose in Armah's Two thousand seasons / A. N. Mensah; title: Things fall apart revisited : a semantic and stylistic study of character in Achebe / A. Lekan Oyeleye; title: Language and characterization in Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the city and Jagua Nana / N. F. Inyama; title: Technique and language in Uchenna Ubesie's fiction / Ernest Emenyonu; title: Language, literature and the struggle for liberation in South Africa / Daniel P. Kunene; title: Linguistic characteristics of the African short story / F. Odun Balogun; title: Language, ideology, desire : rereading Soyinka's The road / Simon Gikandi; title: Theme and language in Soyinka's Madmen and specialists / Obi Maduakor; title: Truth from contraries : a study of form in the work of Femi Osofisan / Chris Dunton. Language pluralism in Sierra Leonean drama in Krio / Julius Spencer; title: Guillaume Oyono-Mbia : a bilingual playwright / Unionmwan Edebiri; title: Graphology and meaning in the poetry of Chrisopher Okigbo / Modupe Olaogun; title: From rhetoric to occultism : the word as music and drama in Okigbo's Labyrinths / Catherine O. Acholonu; title: The rhetoric of J. P. Clark's Ivbie / Isaac I. Elimimian; title: Dimensions of language in New Nigerian poetry / Ezenwa-Ohaeto; title: The language of post-war Nigerian poetry of English expression / J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada.