Title: African textualities
Subtitle: texts, pre-texts, and contexts of African literature
First published: 1997
Description: African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen against the backdrop of the times, traditions and circumstances that helped to shape them. In this book, all these approaches have been utilized, sometimes singly, sometimes in combination.
Subjects: African literature, Canon (Literature), History and criticism, African literature, history and criticism
LC classification: PL8010 .L5 1997