{"product_id":"african-literature-in-transition-james-ogude-9781009662321","title":"African Literature in Transition","description":"This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps that define the imaginative fields in which African literary texts have meaning. They provide answers to the questions that producers of texts must respond to: where stories are set, who writers write for, why writers write and how texts engage in meaning-making. It grapples with how writers imagine themselves contributing to a literary historiography and how readers get to understand the context within which texts are produced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Ogude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1009662325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781009662321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"James Ogude","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637420671231,"sku":"9781009662321","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_018899da-9f41-4c53-a692-485e47f1c90e.jpg?v=1765116100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/african-literature-in-transition-james-ogude-9781009662321","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}