Approaches to the African novel
Subtitle: essays in analysis
By: Charles E. Nnolim
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Malthouse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lagos
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9789788422198
Subjects: African fiction (English); History and criticism; African fiction (French)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The form and function of the folk tradition in Achebe's novels; title: Jungian archetypes and the main characters in Oyono's Une vie de Boy; title: From nostalgia to myth : an archetypal interpretation of Camara Laye's The dark child; title: Craft in Marxist garb : bread, the social issue Sembene's God's bits of wood; title: Background setting : key to the structure of Ngugi's The river between; title: Structure and theme in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat; title: African utopia and Ali Mazrui's The trial of Christopher Okigbo; title: Dialectic as form : pejorism in the novels of Armah; title: Structure and theme in Munonye's Oil man of Obange; title: In search of Aniebo : new craft in The journey within; title: Saro-Wiwa's world and his craft in Sozaboy; title: Ben Okri : writer as artist; title: Achebe's Things fall apart : an Igbo national epic; title: The journey motif : vehicle of form, structure and meaning in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kola; title: Technique and meaning in Achebe's Arrow of god; title: Flora Nwapa : writer as woman; title: The novelist as historian : craft in Peter Abraham's Wild conquest; title: Trends in the Nigerian novel.