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- Detective Fiction and The African Scene: From The Whodunit? To The Whydunit?
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements of the genre are to even the best respected novelists. Finally he has demonstrated for the first time, how the genre has been domesticated by African writers of very great repute such as Ngugi, Sembene and Lessing. That he has been able to prove that these writers have used techniques of detective fiction is a significant broadening of the horizons for appreciating creative writing in Africa.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- p. v
- Chapter II - The African Scene
- pp. 19-44
- Chapter III - The WHYDUNIT
- pp. 45-54
- Conclusion
- pp. 55-56
- Bibliography
- pp. 57-62
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956727032
Related ISBN(s)
9789956727025
MARC Record
OCLC
795354214
Pages
69
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-02
Language
English
Open Access
No