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Author Olaussen, Maria.

Title Africa Writing Europe : Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement
Published Kenilworth : Rodopi, July 2009

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
Series Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 105
Cross/cultures ; 105
Contents Africa writing Europe / Maria Olaussen -- "On these premises I am the government" / Dorothy Driver -- "A deeper silence" / Geoffrey V. Davis -- "A language to fit Africa" / Gabeba Baderon -- Morountodun by Femi Osofisan / Wumi Raji -- Europe discarded / Jarmo Pikkujamsa -- "France, effaced but venerated" / Ann-Sofie Persson -- From heterotopia to home / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Refusing to speak as a victim / Maria Olaussen -- Refugee writing / Jopi Nyman
Summary Annotation. Africa Writing Europe offers critical readings of the meaning and presence of Europe in a variety of African literary texts. The first of its kind, it shifts the focus from questions of African identity to readings which delineate ideas of Europe also in texts written specifically in an African context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Scholarly & Professional Rodopi
Subject African literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
African literature
Literature
SUBJECT Europe -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045784
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Angelfors, Christina.
ISBN 9789042025936
904202593X
9781441625441
1441625445