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The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

By: F. Abiola Irele
ISBN: 9780195086195
$130.00
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This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampaté Bâ, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as a whole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters.
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