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Article: West African Literatures: Ways of Reading.(Book review)
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- African Studies Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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West African Literatures: Ways of Reading. Stephanie Newell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pp.
In West African literatures, Stephanie Newell examines, in thirteen chapters, crucial questions and debates, which are central in the commentaries of Francophone and Anglophone West African letters. The book begins with a particularly relevant introduction, which provides a very good survey of the topics, concepts and terminologies that have animated and stimulated the studies of the African literary production, and that will inform her own intervention: language, orality, postcolonialism, Bhabha's "hybridity," Appiah's "cosmopolitanism," Appadurai's ...