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Article: Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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ANNE V. ADAMS and JANIS A. MAYES (eds), Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development. African Literature Association 2. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 316 pp., US$40.00, ISBN 0 86543 633 9 (hard covers), US$19.95, ISBN 0 86543 634 7 (paperback).
This collection of papers from the twelfth annual meeting of the African Literature Association, held at Cornell University in 1987 contains twenty essays, two transcripts of round-table discussions and an introduction. The contributions are organised in four sections, `Literature and development: conceptualising frameworks', `Literature in development: critical models', `Literature for ...