African Literature, African Critics: The Forming of Critical Standards, 1947-1966 Contributor(s): Bishop, Rand (Author), Rand Bishop, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0313259186 ISBN-13: 9780313259180 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1988 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 820.996 |
LCCN: 87036091 |
Lexile Measure: 1420 |
Series: Great American Orators, |
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.4" W x 9.6" (1.17 lbs) 230 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book. Modern Fiction Studies The years immediately following World War II saw an extraordinary literary development in Black sub-Saharan Africa--the emergence of a virtually new literature. This phenomenon became the center of critical controversy as writers, commentators, and scholars attempted to forge a set of aesthetic standards for this new literature. Although the European contribution to this discussion is will known, the views of African critics, who have been writing voluminously on the subject since the 1940s, have been given far less attention. In this study, Bishop provides the first systematic examination of how Africans themselves have evaluated African literature in English and French from the early postwar years to the opening of the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966. |