Introduction To Burkinabe Literature In English

Autor*innen

• Andre Kabore

Parameter

• Lehrbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Universitätslehrbücher

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'This is a great resource chronicling Anglophone Burkinabe literature, opening up the Francophone country Burkina Faso to the world! Kabore finally brings us a much awaited and sorely needed detailed compendium of a range of works written in English (or translated into English) starting in 1989 up to present, including poetry, plays, novels, tales, and shamen's works. Key themes addressed, such as witchcraft, women's emancipation with bicycle transportation, feminism, creation myths, and ecocriticism will allow scholars of Anglophone African literature to include Burkinabe literature into their comparative analysis. This book features over 25 Anglophone Burkinabe authors, the ancestors of future Anglophone Burkinabe authors. This compendium shall inspire further production of fine Burkinabe literature in English! Kabore's call for required reading of Anglophone Burkinabe literature in Burkinabe schools; his call for these Burkinabe writers to make their English works available in Burk

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Einband: Paperback