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Author
Series
African studies volume 61
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Author
Series
African studies volume 102
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
African studies) volume no. 11
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
Author
Series
African studies) volume no. 18
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.
Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational
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Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 25
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
"In their long, continuing struggle for equality, American women have had to rely primarily on their own resources, which have been considerable. Yet many men have helped advance their cause.
10) Miles and me
Author
Language
English
Description
"Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. Miles and Me describes in intimate detail the sometimes harrowing processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and travails Davis's passionate and contradictory temperament posed to the two men's friendship. Miles and Me...
11) Negritude and literary criticism: the history and theory of "Negro-African" literature in French
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 12
Publisher
Third Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 161
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 17
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies volume no. 116
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Author
Series
African research studies volume no. 3
Publisher
Boston University Press
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World [originally published in 1944], Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone...
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