The critical imagination in African literature essays in honor of Michael J.C. Echeruo /

The critical imagination in African literature essays in honor of Michael J.C. Echeruo / edited by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu. - First edition. - Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Special focus: Cultural icon: Michael J.C. Echeruo and the African academy / The figuration of the Un : between African and world literature / In "the vortex of the expulsion" : the search for an Asian African imaginary / Jacques Lacan in Africa : travel, Moroccan cemetery, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and other passions of theory / (Re)defining the self through trauma in West African postcolonial short fiction / African postcolonial imagination and the moral challenges of our times / Survivalist autobiographies : the struggles of African Muslim women / Rebellion as a narrative strategy in southern African women's writing / Rewriting human rights : gender, violence, and freedom in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Dialogism, African poetics, and contemporary Nigerian poetry in English / Confronting politics through history : a reading of the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and John Edgar Wideman / Special report: the Michael J.C. Echeruo valedictory symposium / Obiwu -- Maik Nwosu -- Rashna Singh -- Obiwu -- Bojana Coulibaly -- Chielozona Eze -- Glen Bush -- Kanchana Ugbabe -- Heather Hewett -- Sule Egya -- Dul Johnson -- Maik Nwosu and Obi Nwakanma.



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African literature (English)--History and criticism.--21st century
African literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic Books.

PR9340 / .C758 2015