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Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri (Studies in African Literature)
Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing Orality and History in the Work of Rev Samuel Johnson Amos Tutuola Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri - Studies in African Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
'This is an innovative and original study which offers a new perspective on a Nigerian literary tradition. Quayson takes issue with the prevalent use of oral tradition in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a kind of cultural matrix out of which the written text emerged, and the essence of which it embodies. He proposes instead a vi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780852555439
ISBN-10: 0852555431
Publication Date: 1/1/1997
Pages: 192
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Publisher: James Currey
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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