Intertextuality in contemporary African literature [electronic resource] : looking inward / Ode Ogede.

By: Ogede, OdeContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011Description: xvii, 229 pISBN: 9780739164488 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | IntertextualityGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.896 LOC classification: PL8010 | .O328 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
When an elephant rustles the bush- -- Is a picture still worth a thousand words? from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

When an elephant rustles the bush- -- Is a picture still worth a thousand words? from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.

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