Tell Me Africa (eBook)

An Approach to African Literature

James Olney (Autor)

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2015
338 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7059-2 (ISBN)

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James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: African literature • African Philosophy • African socialism • a grain of wheat • Albert Lutuli • A Man of the People • Arrow of God • Autobiography • Ayi Kwei Armah • Badimo • Bantu Philosophy • Basil Davidson • Birago Diop • black boy • Buganda • Camara Laye • celibacy • Cheikh Anta Diop • Cheikh Hamidou Kane • Chinua Achebe • Colonialism • Consummation • Davidson Nicol • Dear Husband • Dedan Kimathi • Dennis Brutus • D. H. Lawrence • dieu • East African Federation • E. M. Forster • extreme poverty • Facing Mount Kenya • ferdinand oyono • God Knows (novel) • Graham Greene • grandparent • His Favorite • Historical revisionism (negationism) • his woman • Ikenga • Individualism • Jomo Kenyatta • Josiah Mwangi Kariuki • Kenneth Kaunda • Kofi Awoonor • Kwame Nkrumah • Laurence Sterne • Lewis Nkosi • Literature • Love and Money (play) • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Man alone (stock character) • Marthe • Mbella Sonne Dipoko • meanness • Memoir • Miss Lonelyhearts • Mumbi • Négritude • Ngugi wa Thiong'o • Nicol • Nkosi • Noble savage • No longer at ease • Noni Jabavu • novelist • Okonkwo • Olaudah Equiano • On Religion • Peter Abrahams • Picaresque novel • Pornography • predicament • ridicule • Satire • sense of place • sentimentality • Slavery • slow death • Sons and Lovers • Sophiatown • Spiritual autobiography • Sundiata • Superiority (short story) • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano • The Last Sentence • The Other Hand • The River Between • The Various • Things Fall Apart • To this Day • traditional story • Travels (book) • Ulli Beier • V. • Wallace Stevens • Wilhelm Dilthey • Wole Soyinka • Writing • Yambo Ouologuem
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7059-3 / 1400870593
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7059-2 / 9781400870592