Challenging hierarchies
Subtitle: issues and themes in colonial and postcolonial African literature
By: edited by Leonard A. Podis and Yakubu Saaka.
Contributors: Podis, Leonard A.; Saaka, Yakubu.
Series: Society and politics in Africa ;; v. 5
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation; African literature -- History and criticism; African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The African woman writer as "killjoy"; title: A critical debate on Achebe's depiction of women; title: Eurocentric challenges to colonialsim; title: Afrocentric challenges to colonial and postcolonial hegemony; title: Envisioning successful challenges.