The Form of the African Novel: A Critical Essay |
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African languages African Literature African novel African novelist Amos Tutuola Arabic artistic aspect Ayi Kwei Armah beginning Bits of Wood Black borrowings Bound to Violence Camara Laye characterisation characters Chinua Achebe Clarence Concubine conventional European novel conventional form countries critics of African culture Dathorne deal dealt depict Dernier des Justes E. M. Forster Ekwueme English language essay European languages Eustace Palmer existence fact foreign languages form of oral God's Bits homo fictus human Ihuoma important individuals influence Kafka King Kolera Kolej language and literary literary tradition Longer At Ease Madume marvelous realism Ngugi non-African language novel form novels written Obi Okonkwo Obiechina Omokachi oral narratives oral tradition Ouologuem Palmwine Drinkard particular prose proverbs radical novel reader reason Season of Migration social change society Soyinka story style tapster Tayyib Saleh theme Third World Thousand Seasons village West written by Africans Yambo Ouologuem Yoruba