Landmarks: African Novels of the Twentieth Century |
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... Culture , Tradition and Society in the West African Novel sees these as works in which " considerable areas of the old oral culture still remain side by side with the elements that came with the new literate culture " ( 34 ) . There are ...
... Culture , Tradition and Society in the West African Novel sees these as works in which " considerable areas of the old oral culture still remain side by side with the elements that came with the new literate culture " ( 34 ) . There are ...
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... culture " ( 1 ) . Art draws its material from a socio - cultural background . If it must instruct by pleasing , then it must take its material from within the values of its cultural setting . However , this does not invalidate any ...
... culture " ( 1 ) . Art draws its material from a socio - cultural background . If it must instruct by pleasing , then it must take its material from within the values of its cultural setting . However , this does not invalidate any ...
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... Culture , Tradition and Society in the West African Novel , Cambridge : CUP , 1975 . Ogungbesan , Kolawale , ' The Modern Writer and Commitment ' in Literature and Modern West African Culture , ed . , D. I. Nwoga , Benin City : Ethiope ...
... Culture , Tradition and Society in the West African Novel , Cambridge : CUP , 1975 . Ogungbesan , Kolawale , ' The Modern Writer and Commitment ' in Literature and Modern West African Culture , ed . , D. I. Nwoga , Benin City : Ethiope ...
Contents
Conflict and Character | 33 |
The Satirical Depiction of Colonialism | 51 |
The Journey of SelfDiscovery in Mongo Betis | 66 |
Copyright | |
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