F. Abiola Irele – The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature

Автор: F. Abiola Irele
Название книги: The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Литературоведение
Страницы: 894
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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 introduction to 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. It also accounts for the specific historical and cultural
context in which this expression has been manifested in Africa 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.