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999			_c546186 _d546186
020			_a9780195086195
082			_a896 _bIRE
100			_aIrele, Abiola
245			_a The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora
260			_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c2001
300			_a(xxi, 296 pages)
520			_a1. The African Imagination. 2. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature. 3. African Letters: The Making of a Tradition. 4. Dimensions of African Discourse. 5. A Study in Ambiguity: Amadou Hampate Ba's The Fortunes of Wangrin. 6. Narrative, History and the African Imagination: Amadou Kourouma's Monne, outrages et defis. 7. The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. 8. The Return of the Native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks. 9. A National Voice: The Poetry and Plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo. 10. Parables of the African Condition: The New Realism in African Fict.
650			_a African literature -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Africa. African diaspora.
942			_cBK