Goatskin bags and wisdom
Subtitle: new critical perspectives on African literature
By: Ernest N. Emenyonu.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: African literature -- History and criticism; African literature -- Appreciation; Criticism -- Africa -- History; National characteristics, African; Africans -- Race identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a matter of commitment / Ernest N. Emenyonu; title: Trends in the criticism of African literature / Charles E. Nnolim; title: African critics and the socio-cultural responses to African literature: implications for pragmatic criticism / Ezenwa-Ohaeto; title: Beyond gender warfare and western ideologies: African feminism for the 21st century / Anthonia Akpabio Ekpa; title: Making an impact: feminist literary studies at the University of Lagos / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo; title: Discourse analysis and characterization in the novel / Ako Essien; title: Nigerian literature and oral tradition / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada; title: Tradition, Rotimi, and his audience / Sam Ukala; title: R.E. Obeng's Eighteenpence: a critical study / S.K. Okleme; title: Grappling with irony in the feminist text: the case of the The concubine / Virginia U. Ola; title: Nigerian new female voices in social criticism: Ifeoma Okoye's Men without ears / B.E.C. Oguzie; title: A reader's response to contemporary African short stories / Jasper Onuekwusi; title: Society in Chukwuemeka Ike's fiction: a focus on The potter's wheel and Expo '77 / B.E.C. Oguzie; title: Okpewho's victims: victims of art, not of fire / Sophia O. Ogwude; title: Communicative competence and dialogue in bilingual novels: three Nigerian novels as case study / Ako Essien; title: Artistic expression in Chinua Achebe's experiment with the English language in two novels / Dele Orisawayi; title: On becoming a novelist: a novel reading of Chinua Achebe's A man of the people / Ada U. Azodo; title: The man that is in ME: Chinua Achebe and the valorization of the human spirit / Clement A. Okafor; title: Nurturing the cradle: Chinua Achebe's fiction for children / Ernest N. Emenyonu; title: The eternal sojourner: Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man and his fiction / Augustine C. Okere; title: Nigeria's new poets and violence / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya; title: New Nigerian poetry in English and the theory of poetic language / Augustin C. Okere; title: Fear and premonition in Ken Saro-Wiwa's poetry / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya; title: Gabriel Okara as a war poet / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya; title: Encounters with readers and critics / Chukwuemeka Ike; title: The word, poetic vision and society / Gabriel Okara; title: A writer's monologue / Ifeoma Okoye; title: An interview with Chukwuemeka Ike / B.E.C. Oguzie; title: Nationalism and the creative talent (an address to the Association of Nigerian authors) / Ernest N. Emenyonu.