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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Introductions to and Overviews of African Literature
3. Genres in African Literature
5.1 The African Novel
5.2 African Poetry
4. African Literature as a Subject of Literary and Cultural Studies
4.1 African Literary Theories
4.2 Weaknesses of Postcolonial Theory in the Context of African Writing
4.2.1 Patronage and the Cultural Binary
4.2.2 Problems Related to Eurocentric Criticism of African Literature
4.3 Suggested Solutions
5. Questions of Language
5.1 Language in African Writing
5.2 Oral Forms of Literature
6. New Directions in African Literature
6.1 Female African Writers and Issues of Gender
6.2 Globalization and Postcolonialism
6.3 African Literature in the 21st Century
7. Conclusion
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- Anna Poppen (Author), 2012, Academic Discourses on African Postcolonial Literature in the Past 20 Years, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/278565
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