Less Than One and Double

by Kenneth W. Harrow

Book Overview

Harrow's provocative book introduces a psychoanalytic dimension to the study of African women's writing. In so doing, he opens up relatively uncharted terrain in African literary studies. Comprehensive, nuanced, occasionally lyrical, the book covers an impressive range of hitherto neglected francophone novels that are examined alongside canonical anglophone texts. The author places these texts in their colonial and postcolonial contexts, developing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325070253
• ISBN13: 9780325070254
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher