Africa and Gutenberg: Exploring Oral Structures in the Modern African Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783261033222)

The present investigation attempts to throw light on the modern African novel in English (Tutuola, Achebe, Armah, Okara) as a synthesis of an oral sensibility with a literate form. It tries to analyse and interpret how the traditionally oral Africa - perhaps its orality even newly reinforced by the influence of the electronic media - carries on and integrates its heritage in a world shaped by the combined alphabetic and Gutenberg revolutions.

Author: Gerhard Fritschi
ISBN-10: 3261033223
ISBN-13: 9783261033222
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1983
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback