Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ,

The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership / Mukoma Wa Ngugi. - 216 p. ; 23 cm. - African perspectives .

Introduction. Manufacturing the African novel : the Makerere writers and questions of language, identity, and ownership -- No shrubbing in the English metaphysical empire, please : a question of language -- Amos Tutuola : creating the African literary bogeyman -- Africa's missing literary history : from A. C. Jordan's Child of two worlds to Noviolet Bulawayo's fractured multiple worlds -- Manufacturing the African literary canon : costs and opportunities -- Toward a rooted transnational African literature : politics of image and naming.

9780472123360 (ebook)

2017053328


African fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
African fiction--History and criticism.--20th century

PL8010.6

809.39896 MUK