Author: Gerard, Albert S. (Ed).
Title: European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Volumes 1 & 2.
Description: Akademiai Kiado. Budapest 1986. Black cloth boards. 2 volumes 1288pp total. 8vo Institutional library stamp both volumes. ff age-tanned else VG condition in dustwrappers. ISBN: 9630538326 These two volumes dealing with Sub-Saharan Africa provide a systematic survey of creative writings generated in the three main European languages that were used for imaginative purposes on the African continent. Mainly references English, French, & Portuguese writings, but many other languages are included (even Latin). The work is organised to a taxonomy that takes into account time, space, and language with a comprehensive system of periodisation applied to the fast-growing corpus of literature produced from Dakar to Dar es Salaam and from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. since independence.

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