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Article: Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers.(Review)
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- African American Review
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- September 22, 1999
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Femi Ojo-Ade, ed. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996. 192 pp. $59.95.
Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham/Savannah College of Art and Design
The publication of this collection of essays is quite timely. It comes at a critical political conjuncture: the intercession between global capitalism at its most dominant phase and the global cultural logic. But more importantly, it comes at a time of renewed cultural and intellectual ferment between the "Third World" and the United States of America. This ferment could be seen in the considerable visibility currently enjoyed in America by that intellectual hybrid known as post-colonial criticism, the ...