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Ode Ogede - Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature - 9780739164464 - V9780739164464
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Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature

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Description for Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of and extending the resources available in the existing native literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as the theme of African ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739164464
SKU
V9780739164464
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Ode Ogede
Ode Ogede is professor in the Department of English and Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University.

Reviews for Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Dr. Ogede's elegantly written book applauds intertextuality as a resourceful creative principle and a rewarding critical enterprise, and authoritatively applies its paradigm to his reading of contemporary African letters, thus proving his thesis that African writers deliberately re-write and revise one another's work as a strategy to frame a new brand of textual originality. His exciting study discusses writers that ... Read more

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