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Article: African Novels in the Classroom. .(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2002
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Hay, Margaret Jean, ed. African Novels in the Classroom. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2000. $55.00 hc. $29.95 sc. iv + 314 pp.
African Novels in the Classroom, edited by Margaret Jean Hay. is an important addition to the existing pedagogical works on the teaching of African literature such as Thomas Hale and Richard Priebe's The Teaching of African Literature (1989) and Elizabeth Gunner's A Handbook for Teaching African Literature (1984). It is also an appropriate follow-up to Misty Bastian and Jane Parpart's Great Ideas for Teaching about Africa (1999). Hale and Priebe's study focuses on students and the problematics of teaching African literature. Bastian ...