Goatskin bags and wisdom : new critical perspectives on African literature / edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu.

• Introduction: a matter of commitment / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Trends in the criticism of African literature / Charles E. Nnolim -- African critics and the socio-cultural responses to African literature: implications for pragmatic criticism / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Beyond gender warfare and western ideologies: African feminism for the 21st century / Anthonia Akpabio Ekpa --?Making an impact: feminist literary studies at the University of Lagos / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo -- Discourse analysis and characterization in the novel / Ako Essien -- Nigerian literature and oral tradition / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada -- Tradition, Rotimi, and his audience / Sam Ukala --?R.E. Obeng's Eighteenpence: a critical study / S.K. Okleme -- Grappling with irony in the feminist text: the case of the concubine / Virginia U. Ola -- Nigerian new female voices in social criticism: Ifeoma Okoye's Men without ears / B.E.C. Oguzie -- A reader's response to contemporary African short stories / Jasper Onuekwusi -- Society in Chukwuemeka Ike's fiction: a focus on The potter's wheel and Expo '77 / B.E.C. Oguzie -- Okpewho's victims: victims of art, not of fire / Sophia O. Ogwude -- Communicative competence and dialogue in bilingual novels: three Nigerian novels as case study / Ako Essien -- Artistic expression in Chinua Achebe's experiment with the English language in two novels / Dele Orisawayi -- On becoming a novelist: a novel reading of Chinua Achebe's A man of the people / Ada U. Azodo -- The man that is in ME: Chinua Achebe and the valorization of the human spirit / Clement A. Okafor -- Nurturing the cradle: Chinua Achebe's fiction for children / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- The eternal sojourner: Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man and his fiction / Augustine C. Okere -- Nigeria's new poets and violence / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya --?New Nigerian poetry in English and the theory of poetic language / Augustin C. Okere --?Fear and premonition in Ken Saro-Wiwa's poetry / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya -- Gabriel Okara as a war poet / Innocent C.K. Enyinnaya -- Encounters with readers and critics / Chukwuemeka Ike --?The word, poetic vision and society / Gabriel Okara -- A writer's monologue / Ifeoma Okoye --?An interview with Chukwuemeka Ike / B.E.C. Oguzie -- Nationalism and the creative talent (an address to the Association of Nigerian authors) / Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Ämnesord

National characteristics, African  (LCSH)

African literature  -- History and criticism (LCSH)

African literature  -- Appreciation (LCSH)

Criticism  -- Africa -- History (LCSH)

Africans  -- Race identity (LCSH)

Klassifikation

809 (DDC)

809 (DDC)