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The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature
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Cambridge University Press
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2004
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English
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Africa and orality / Liz Gunner
The folktale and its extensions / Kwesi Yankah
Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Oaniyan
Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / Sabra Webber
Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / Lupenga Mphande
African oral epics / Isidore Okpehwo
The oral tradition in the African diaspora / Maureen Warner-Lewis
Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / Keith Q. Warner
Africa and writing / Alain Ricard
Ethiopian literature / Teodros Kiros
African literature in Arabic / Farida Abu-Haidar
The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui
Africa and the European Renaissance / Silvie Kandé
The literature of slavery and abolition / Moira Ferguson
Discourses of empire / Robert Eric Livingston
African-language literatures of southern Africa / Daniel P. Kuene
Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels / Ann Biersteker
The emergence of written Hausa literature / Ousseina Alidou
Literature in Yorùbá : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama / Karin Barber
African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi
The formative journals and institutions / Milton Krieger
Literature in Afrikaans / Ampie Coetzee
East African literature in English / Simon Gikandi
Anglophone literature of Central Africa / Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells
West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies / Dan Izevbaye
South African literature in English / David Attwell
African literature in French : Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period / Mildred Mortimer
North African literature in French / Patricia Geesey
Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean / Bénédicte Maguière
African literature in Spanish / M'bre N'gom
African literature in Portuguese / Russell Hamilton
Popular literature in Africa / Ode S. Ogede
Caribbean literature in French : origins and development / Nick Nesbitt
Caribbean literature in Spanish / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Anglophone Caribbean literature / Elaine Savory
The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement / F. Abiola Irele
Postcolonial Caribbean identities / J. Michael Dash
African literature and post-independence disillusionment / Derek Wright
"Postcolonial" African and Caribbean literature / Adele King
Modernism and postmodernism in African literature / Ato Quayson.
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