The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature 2 Volume Hardback Set - Couverture rigide

Irele, F. Abiola; Gikandi, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521594340 ISBN 13 : 9780521594349

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Irele F Abiola Gikandi Simon

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This history offers new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature. It provides the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history. Chapters address the literature itself, the practices and conditions of its composition, and its complex relationship with African social and geopolitical history. The book provides an account of the entire body of productions that can be considered to comprise the field of African literature, defined both by imaginative expression in Africa itself and the black diaspora. The book accounts for the specific historical and cultural context in which this expression has been manifested in African and the Caribbean: the formal particularities of the literary corpus, both oral and written, that can be ascribed to the two areas, and the diversity of material and texts covered by the representative works. This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Professor F. Abiola Irele's publications include an annotated edition of Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor (1977), The African Experience in Literature and Ideology (1981; reprinted 1990), and an annotated edition of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1994; second edition 1999), as well as numerous articles and reviews and a recent volume of essays, The African Imagination (2001). He is a contributing editor to the new Norton Anthology of World Literature and is currently editor of Research in African Literatures. He is general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521594340
• ISBN 13: 9780521594349
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 954