
Emerging Literatures
Reingard Nethersole(Editor)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 1. February 1991
Book
Hardback
XXXVI, 197 pages
978-3-261-04308-5 (ISBN)
Description
Emerging Literatures brings together fifteen essays concerned with different modes of literary discursivity emanating from the African Continent. At the intersection of oral and written forms, of indigenous practices and European models, of politics, literature and language, the question of the status of literature as legitimizing force in peoples' struggle for socio-political self-determination is posed again. Thus the term emergent derived from a comparative over-view of literary history becomes inextricably linked to the notion of emergency, a state of crisis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bern
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
2 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-261-04308-5 (9783261043085)
Schweitzer Classification