Reading the African Novel
Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan
ISBN 978-0-435-08018-1 / 0-435-08018-0 / 1987 / 192pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann
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Grade Level: College
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Simon Gikandi provides critical analysis on the African novel.His analysis is fresh and illuminating but, above all, concise. His familiarity with contemporary critical theory helps to make his ideas both more accessible and more relevant.
—Dennis Brutus
Contents:
1. Character and Consciousness in the Novels of Laye and Armah
2. The Irony of Experience in Beti's Mission to Kala, Oyono's Houseboy, and Kane's Ambiguous Adventure
3. Exile and Alienation in the Novels of Soyinka and Armah
4. The Political Novel: Community, Character, and Consciousness in Sembene's God's Bits of Wood, LaGuma's In the Fog of the Season's End, and Ngugi's Petals of Blood
5. Myth, Language, and Culture in Achebe's Arrow of God and Amadi's The Concubine
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His analysis is fresh and illuminating but, above all, concise. His familiarity with contemporary critical theory helps to make his ideas both more accessible and more relevant. ”
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