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A HISTORY OF NEO-AFRICAN LITERATURE, JANHEINZ JAHN.

A HISTORY OF NEO-AFRICAN LITERATURE, JANHEINZ...

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The book is divided into four main sections, the first dealing with the cul- tural and historical background, con- taining accounts of the little-known works of writers of African descent, like Juan Latino who wrote Latin verse in sixteenth-century Spain and the black 'educational guinea-pigs' of the Age of Enlightenment. The African Scene' has chapters on 'oral literature', Hausa and Swahili writing, and 'protest and 'apprentice' work in European and African languages throughout the con- tinent; and "The American Scene' deals comprehensively with verse and prose in Latin America and the West Indies as well as the U.S.A.-not omitting the Blues and the Calypso. The New Problems' discusses recent develop- ments, such as the concept of Négritude...

Hardcover, 301 pages, in good condition. Faber, 1966.