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    The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele.

    • Title:The Cambridge companion to the African novel / edited by F. Abiola Irele.
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    • Variant Title:Companion to the African novel
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Irele, Abiola.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:African fiction--History and criticism.
    • Description:xxii, 282 p. ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index.
    • ISBN:9780521855600
      0521855608
      9780521671682 (pbk.)
      052167168X (pbk.)
    • Contents:Introduction: perspectives on the African novel / F. Abiola Irele
      The oral-literate interface / Olakunle George
      Chinua Achebe and the African novel / Dan Izevbaye
      Protest and resistance / Barbara Harlow
      The Afrikaans novel / Christopher Warnes
      The African novel in Arabic / Shaden M. Tageldin
      The francophone novel in North Africa / Bernard Aresu
      The francophone novel in sub-Saharan Africa / Lydie Moudileno
      The African historical novel / M. Keith Booker
      Magical realism and the African novel / Ato Quayson
      The African novel and the feminine condition / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
      Autobiography and Bildungsroman in African literature / Apollo Amoko
      The postcolonial condition / Phyllis Taoua
      New voices, emerging themes / Dominic Thomas
      The critical reception of the African novel / Harry Garuba.
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