An Introduction To The African Prose Narrative

Download or read book An Introduction to the African Prose Narrative written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics and the relatively new works in all subgenres of the African prose narrative, including the traditional epic, the novel, the short story, and the autobiography. The chapters are arranged according to the respective thematic paradigms under which the discussed works fall."