Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780914478270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.
Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures
Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780914478270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN: 9780914478270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Nigeria is endowed with oral and written literatures in a variety of languages. This collection focuses on work in the three major vernacular languages - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa - as well as on the important authors writing in English.
Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe
Author: Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780914478492
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780914478492
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Critical Perspectives on Elechi Amadi
Author: Seiyifa Koroye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Harvest from Tragedy
Author: Chinyere Nwahunanya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo
Author: Donatus Ibe Nwoga
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894102585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894102585
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A collection of essays and reviews, both favourable and negative, about the Igbo poet. The book begins with a memorial essay by Chinua Achebe. Other contributors examine the imagery that Okigbo drew from nature, history and politics, exploring the surrealistic qualities of his work.
Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865438767
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This compendium of 37 essays provides global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865438767
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This compendium of 37 essays provides global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.
Chinua Achebe
Author: Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Things fall Apart", is compared with Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson". Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Things fall Apart", is compared with Joyce Cary's "Mister Johnson". Achebe's novel is seen as a more realistic portrayal of the society and culture of indigenous people of Nigeria.
Goatskin Bags and Wisdom
Author: Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Among the contributors are a new generation of young African writers whose studies include the works of a number of established and emerging African Writers about whom there is little criticism now in existence."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Among the contributors are a new generation of young African writers whose studies include the works of a number of established and emerging African Writers about whom there is little criticism now in existence."--BOOK JACKET.
Nigerian Female Writers
Author: Henrietta C. Otokunefor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Fifteen contributors from Nigerian universities write on twenty Nigerian women writers. The aim of the editors was to bring into focus the literary contribution of Nigerian women writers up to the present. The writers are grouped into four broad categories: novelists, dramatists, poets, and the children's literature writers. They include the well-known writers, such as Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Adaora Ulasi; but also relatively unknown female writers who have contributed to the development of Nigerian literature. The book includes a short biography on each writer; a list of her publications; words about her and a critical analysis of her works.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Fifteen contributors from Nigerian universities write on twenty Nigerian women writers. The aim of the editors was to bring into focus the literary contribution of Nigerian women writers up to the present. The writers are grouped into four broad categories: novelists, dramatists, poets, and the children's literature writers. They include the well-known writers, such as Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Adaora Ulasi; but also relatively unknown female writers who have contributed to the development of Nigerian literature. The book includes a short biography on each writer; a list of her publications; words about her and a critical analysis of her works.