African Literatures in the Eighties

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Dieter Riemenschneider, Frank Schulze-Engler
Rodopi, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 281 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
8
Desert Gold Irrigation Schemes for Ending
27
LAfrique francophone
39
West African Literature in the 1980s
61
The Eighties and the Return to Oral
85
The Elusive Truth Literary Development
107
East African Literature in the 1980s
121
South African Literature of the Eighties
139
Conference Report
197
Book Reviews
204
There is no Sun in Africa but Drought
210
Early_Cultural Nationalism in West
225
Playing the Market The Market Theatre 19761986
235
Nadine Gordimer Antje Hagena
241
Black African Literature in English 19821986
247
Schwarzafrikanische Literatur im Französischunterricht
260

Claiming Her Authority from Life Twenty Years
155
Poems
163
Complaints Complaints
188
To the Memory of my Beloved Brother
268
Authors Addresses
280
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