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Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature
By (Author) James Olney
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.896
Hardback
338
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and