Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature

by James Olney

Book Overview

James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618704
• ISBN13: 9780691618708
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"