Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1966

by Margaret Laurence

Book Overview

Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa. Laurence writes that the "most enduring interesting aspect of Nigerian literature is the insights it gives not only into immediate and local dilemmas, but through these, into the human dilemma as a whole." Her comments on the early writings of well-known Nigerian authors-Wole Soyinka, Chinua...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888643322
• ISBN13: 9780888643322
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"