The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora

by F. Abiola Irele

Book Overview

This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat B , and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086198
• ISBN13: 9780195086195
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"