Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / [electronic resource] :
Ode Ogede.
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.
- xvii, 229 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780739164488 (electronic bk.)
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century Intertextuality.