{"product_id":"alt-27-new-novels-in-ernest-n-emenyonu-9780852555729","title":"Alt 27 New Novels in African Literature Today","description":"This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the oldergeneration novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues.\u003cbr\u003e Brenda Cooper a renowned literary scholar from Cape Town writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, while Charles Nnolim writes about Adichie's more recent novel Half of a Yellow Sun; Omar Sougou of Universite GastonBerger, Senegal discusses 'ambivalent inscriptions' in Buchi Emecheta's later novels; Clement Okafor of the University of Maryland, addresses the theme of 'racial memory' in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name, juxtaposed between the world of the old and the realities of the present. Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, New York, discusses Ngugi's latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, while Machiko Oike, Hiroshima University, Japan looksat a new theme in African adolescent literature, 'youth in an era of HIV\/AIDS'. There is abundant evidence of the contrasts and diversities which characterize the African novel not only geographically, but also ideologically andgenerationally. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nigeria: HEBN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernest N. Emenyonu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0852555725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780852555729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e James Currey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.48w x 0.51d","brand":"Ernest N. Emenyonu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947399807231,"sku":"9780852555729","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa086d6f-b4c8-4fcb-bcd9-55af5cfe8739.jpg?v=1681518499","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alt-27-new-novels-in-ernest-n-emenyonu-9780852555729","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}