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020			_a9781119058175 _q(hardback)
020			_z9781119058229 _q(adobe pdf)
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245	0	2	_aA companion to African literatures/ _cedited by Olakunle George.
263			_a2008
264		1	_aHoboken, NJ: _bWiley-Blackwell, _c©2021.
300			_avi, 488 pages; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aBlackwell companions to literature and culture
500			_aIncludes index.
505	2		_aEast and Central Africa -- North Africa -- Southern Africa -- West Africa -- Redoublings and reconstellations.
520			_a"This book is designed to serve as research resource for scholars, teachers, and students of African literature and related fields like world literature, comparative literary studies, and postcolonial studies. A Companion to African Literatures contains twenty-eight historically grounded and theoretically informed essays written by experts in the diverse subfields in the study of African literatures. The intended audience includes specialists, teachers, and students of modern African literature, as well as non-specialists in ancillary fields. In contemporary literary studies, notions of "world literature" and "globalism" have become central and influential. Here, the notion of world literature is to be understood as a set of theoretical perspectives and protocols of interpretation, rather than simply a corpus of literary works. In the turn to broad transnational perspectives, there is always a risk of de-emphasizing the specific backgrounds, thematic concerns, and significant transformations that characterize African literatures. This volume addresses the need for richly contextualized accounts of the diversity of literary production on the African continent. Taken as discrete individual chapters or as a whole, the volume will be useful to specialists and non-specialists in their research; it will likewise be useful to teachers who seek rigorous and lucid essays that can be assigned in college courses. With regard to genres and forms, A Companion to African Literatures covers novels, poetry, dramatic literature, nonfiction, and film. The focus is mainly on modern African literatures from around the nineteenth century. Even though literatures in Amharic, Arabic and Swahili date much farther back, in order to make the volume manageable the focus is on the historical span that extends from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		1	_aAfrican literature _xHistory and criticism. _944723
700	1		_aGeorge, Olakunle, _eeditor. _944724
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _tA companion to African literatures _dHoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2020] _z9781119058229 _w(DLC) 2020024004
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