Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
- 3 The contents of the tin trunk: Ìsarà by Wole Soyinka
- 4 Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul
- 5 Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber
- 6 Southern Africa's Houses of Hunger
- 7 Conclusion: the frontiers of writing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The coming of literacy: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
- 3 The contents of the tin trunk: Ìsarà by Wole Soyinka
- 4 Mr Biswas finds a home in the world on paper: V. S. Naipaul
- 5 Literacy in the world not ruled by paper: Myal by Erna Brodber
- 6 Southern Africa's Houses of Hunger
- 7 Conclusion: the frontiers of writing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of LiteracyReading and Writing in African and Caribbean Fiction, pp. 208 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011