Title African writers / C. Brian Cox, editor

Published New York : Charles Scribner's Sons ; [1997] London : Simon and Schuster Prentice Hall International, [1997] ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxxi, 936 pages)) Series Gale virtual reference library Gale virtual reference library. Contents vol. 1. Peter Abrahams -- Chinua Achebe -- Ama Ata Aidoo -- Ayi Kwei Armah -- Kofi Awoonor -- Mariama Ba -- Mongo Beti -- Andre Brink -- Dennis Brutus -- Roy Campbell -- Albert Camus -- John Pepper Clark -- J.M. Coetzee -- Mia Couto -- Mohammed Dib -- Obi Egbuna -- Cyprian Ekwensi -- Buchi Emecheta -- Nuruddin Farah -- Athol Fugard -- Nadine Gordimer -- Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Bessie Head -- Luis Bernardo Honwana -- Christopher Hope --Yusuf Idris -- Festus Iyayi -- Dan Jacobson -- Kateb Yacine -- Alex La Guma -- Camara Laye -- Doris Lessing -- volume 2. Najib Mahfuz -- Albert Memmi -- Thomas Mokopu Mofolo -- Es'kia Mphahlele -- Meja Mwangi -- Agostinho Neto -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Tanure Ojaide -- Gabriel Okara -- Christopher Okigbo -- Ben Okri -- Kole Omotoso -- Femi Osofisan -- Niyi Osundare -- Ferdinand Oyono -- Alan Paton -- Okot p'Bitek -- Pepetela --William Plomer -- Ola Rotimi -- Nawal al-Saadawi -- al-Tayyib Salih -- Olive Schreiner -- Sembene Ousmane -- Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi -- Bode Sowande -- Wole Soyinka -- Efua Theodora Sutherland -- Taha Husayn -- Amos Tutuola -- Laurens van der Post -- Jose Luandino Vieira Summary Contains essays on African writers from seventeen countries writing in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and indigenous languages. Subjects span the late nineteenth century to the present Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject African literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries African literature -- Dictionaries Authors, African -- Biography -- Dictionaries Letterkunde. Schrijvers. African literature. Authors, African. Genre/Form Bibliographies. Bibliographies. Bio-bibliography. Biographies. Biographies. Dictionaries. Form Electronic book Author Cox, Brian, 1928-2008. ISBN 0684316692 9780684316697

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