Roscoe The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-50379-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Roscoe, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2006
Part I. History and Politics
1. Empire and Colonialism
2. British Imperialism
3. Legitimizing Empire
4. The British in Africa
5. Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
6. White Rhodesia
7. Historiography and Literature
8. Independence
Part II. Genres
9. Verse
10. Prose
11. Drama
12. Children's Literature
13. White Rhodesian Poetry
14. White Rhodesian Fiction
Part III. Authors and Works, A-Z
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Before his retirement in 2000, Adrian Roscoe was Senior Professor and Head of the Department of English Studies at the University of the North (South Africa). He is the author of Mother is Gold (Cambridge, 1977), Uhuru's Fire (Cambridge, 1988) and The Quiet Chameleon (with Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Hans Zel Pub, 1992)