Spheres public and private : Western genres in African literature / edited by Gordon Collier.

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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Prefatory Note""; ""OVERVIEWS""; ""Imagined Transformation: Notes on a Postcolonialism of African Literature""; ""African Literature: A Showcase for Africa�s Leadership Problems""; ""Lit-Orature Development, World Peace, and the Challenges of Literary Theory/Criticism""; ""Thematization and Perspectivization of Conflict in Selected Yorùbá Literary Genres""; ""POETRY""; ""Paths of Revolutionary Contestation: Wole Soyinka�s Poetry and the Dialectic of Liberal Humanism""

""The Aesthetic of Rage in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English: Olu Oguibe and Ogaga Ifowodo""""The Cumulative Neglect of Collective Responsibility: Postcoloniality, Ecology and the Niger Deltascape in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide""; ""“Vipers Who Minute Our Twitches�: Psychopaths That Served Banda�s Malaŵian Dictatorship in Jack Mapanje�s Prison Poetry""; ""Bringing Hinduism to Bear on the Ghanaian Situation: Ladé Wosornu�s Artistry as a Call for Spiritual Renewal""; ""Cultural Identity and Literature: A Study of Okot p�Bitek�s Song of Lawino""; ""FICTION""

""Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice: Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women�s Europhone Fiction""""Rulers Against Writers, Writers Against Rulers: The Failed Promise of the Public Sphere in Postcolonial Nigerian Fiction""; ""A Lingering Nightmare: Achebe, Ofoegbu, and Adichie on Biafra""; ""Where is the Text? Chinua Achebe�s Things Fall Apart""; ""Perspectivization in Fiction: A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka�s Aké""; ""On the Threshold of Combat Poetics: The Novels of Festus Iyayi""

""Contentious Absolutism: The Public Sphere and the Imperative of Circumvention in Ngugi�s Wizard of the Crow""""Subversion and the Carnivalesque: Images of Resistance in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong�o�s Wizard of the Crow""; ""What�s In a Title? A Reading of Amma Darko�s The Housemaid""; ""The Problems of Perspective in Mongo Beti�s The Poor Christ of Bomba""; ""Epistolarity as Ethnography of Rebellion (or Alienation): Western Education and Its After-Effects on the Female Subject in Mariama Bâ�s So Long a Letter""

""Ousmane Semb�ne�s God�s Bits of Wood: The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity""""Sex, Power, and Community in Ousmane Semb�ne�s Véhi-Ciosane""; ""Contesting the Religious Civilizing Mission of Empire in Hispanophone African Literature""; ""THEATRE""; ""Pastoral Verbal Performance and Visual Aesthetics: Brother Jero�s Cape as Sign""; ""“Not a girl to meet every day�: Feminist Identity Transformation in Ama Ata Aidoo�s Anowa""; ""Playing With History, Playing With Words: Ngũgĩ and Mugo�s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi""

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