Teaching the African Novel, Paperback by Desai, Guarav (EDT), Like New Used, ...

Teaching the African Novel, Paperback by Desai, Guarav (EDT), ISBN 1603290389, ISBN-13 9781603290388, Like New Used, Free shipping in the USWhat is the African novel, and how should it be taught?<br> <br>The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngugi wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's <i>Things Fall Apart</i> to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance.<br> <br>The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."