African Literary Topoi in Modern African Texts and the Problematics of Europhone Forms

This article treats selected oral poems whose topoi or motifs have transcended time and space to play out themselves in modern African fictions where colonial languages and their consequent habits of thought serve as media of enunciation. Thereafter, it beams attention on African scholars and writer...

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Main Author: Chukwumah Ignatius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2013-03-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0001