| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxxi, 936 pages)) |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
vol. 1. Peter Abrahams -- Chinua Achebe -- Ama Ata Aidoo -- Ayi Kwei Armah -- Kofi Awoonor -- Mariama Ba -- Mongo Beti -- Andre Brink -- Dennis Brutus -- Roy Campbell -- Albert Camus -- John Pepper Clark -- J.M. Coetzee -- Mia Couto -- Mohammed Dib -- Obi Egbuna -- Cyprian Ekwensi -- Buchi Emecheta -- Nuruddin Farah -- Athol Fugard -- Nadine Gordimer -- Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Bessie Head -- Luis Bernardo Honwana -- Christopher Hope --Yusuf Idris -- Festus Iyayi -- Dan Jacobson -- Kateb Yacine -- Alex La Guma -- Camara Laye -- Doris Lessing -- vol. 2. Najib Mahfuz -- Albert Memmi -- Thomas Mokopu Mofolo -- Es'kia Mphahlele -- Meja Mwangi -- Agostinho Neto -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Tanure Ojaide -- Gabriel Okara -- Christopher Okigbo -- Ben Okri -- Kole Omotoso -- Femi Osofisan -- Niyi Osundare -- Ferdinand Oyono -- Alan Paton -- Okot p'Bitek -- Pepetela --William Plomer -- Ola Rotimi -- Nawal al-Saadawi -- al-Tayyib Salih -- Olive Schreiner -- Sembene Ousmane -- Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi -- Bode Sowande -- Wole Soyinka -- Efua Theodora Sutherland -- Taha Husayn -- Amos Tutuola -- Laurens van der Post -- Jose Luandino Vieira. |
| Summary |
Contains essays on African writers from seventeen countries writing in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and indigenous languages. Subjects span the late nineteenth century to the present. |
| Subject |
African literature -- Bio-bibliography.
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Authors, African -- Biography.
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African literature.
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| Added Author |
Cox, Brian, 1928-2008, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African writers. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1997 9780684196510 |
| ISBN |
9780684316697 (electronic book) |
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9780684196510 (set : alk. paper) |
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0684196514 (set : alk. paper) |
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9780684197715 (v. 1 : alk. paper) |
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0684197715 (v. 1 : alk. paper) |
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9780684197722 (v. 2 : alk. paper) |
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0684197723 (v. 2 : alk. paper) |
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