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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 African literature Information
1,846 words, approx. 6 pages
 African literature refers to the literature of and for the African peoples. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa, while the European perception of literature generally refers... 
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 African Studies Review Meditations on African Literature
09/01/2003: 958 words, approx. 3 pages Dubem Okafor, ed. Meditations on African Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. xiv + 208 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. A barrage of convoluted language greets the readers of Dubem Okafor's Meditations on African Literature. For those like myself who prefer a... summary from source:
African Studies Review Encyclopaedia of African Literature
12/01/2003: 1,195 words, approx. 4 pages Simon Gikandi. Encyclopaedia of African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003. xv + 629 pp. Index. $150.00. Cloth. Early scholars of African literature still remember how welcome Hans Zell's Readers' Guide to African Literature (1972) was in this new field of criticism. Since then,... summary from source:
 AP News Gordimer gets French Legion of Honor
4/2/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pagesNobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend... summary from source:
AP News Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pagesNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Pauline Dodgson
40,429 words, approx. 135 pages
In the following essay, Dodgson examines the history and diversity of modern African literature, focusing on the movement's major writers, significant works, and critical response.
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Critical Essay by Jana Evans Braziel
12,747 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Braziel asserts that Jamaica Kincaid's utilization of Obeah, a Caribbean diasporic religion, in “In the Night” “is linked to contemporary Caribbean diasporas and the traversal of spaces, times, and cultures that such migration enacts.”
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Critical Essay by Sarah Lawson Welsh
10,380 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Welsh cogitates Pauline Melville's particular status as a Guyanese of mixed-race ancestry through a theoretically informed examination of her collection of stories, Shape-shifter.
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