The African Novel of Ideas PDF book is popular Literary Criticism book written by Jeanne-Marie Jackson. The book was released by Princeton University Press on 2021-01-12 with total hardcover pages 240. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The African Novel of Ideas by Jeanne-Marie Jackson in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses
"This study focuses on the role of the philosophical novel--a genre that favors abstract concepts, or 'thinking about thinking,' over style, plot, or character
Chinua Achebe's influence on contemporary African literature is as much in evidence in his art of the novel as his theory of African literature and literary cri
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of
This humorous tale of the naïve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation f
