Black Mind : A History of African Literature.
Title:
Black Mind : A History of African Literature.
Author:
Dathorne, O.R.
ISBN:
9780816662067
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (540 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Part I. Tradition -- Chapter 1. The Traditional Artist -- Chapter 2. African Script -- Chapter 3. Spoken Art -- Chapter 4. Sung or Chanted Art -- Part II. Heritage -- Chapter 5. African Literature in Latin -- Chapter 6. Three Eighteenth-Century African Writers in English -- Chapter 7. Written Indigenous Literatures -- Part III. The Presence of Europe -- Chapter 8. Beginnings in English -- Chapter 9. West African Novelists in English -- Chapter 10. East, Central, and South African Novelists in English -- Chapter 11. African Poetry in English -- Chapter 12. Négritude and Black Writers -- Chapter 13. African Literature in Portuguese -- Chapter 14. Contemporary African Prose and Poetry in French -- Chapter 15. African Drama in French and English -- Part IV. Crosscurrents -- Chapter 16. "Africa" in Caribbean Literature -- Epilogue. The Black Environment -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The comprehensive account of the development of African literature from its beginnings in oral tradition to its contemporary expression in the writings of Africans in various African and European languages provides insight, both broad and deep, into the B.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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