{"product_id":"teaching-the-african-novel-gaurav-desai-9781603290388","title":"Teaching the African Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the African novel, and how should it be taught?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, \"The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gaurav Desai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1603290389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603290388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Gaurav Desai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097004679423,"sku":"9781603290388","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teaching-the-african-novel-gaurav-desai-9781603290388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}