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African Critics on African Literature–a Study in Misplaced Hostility by Solomon Ogbede Iyasere, California State College, Bakersfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Solomon Ogeede Iyasere
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Calfornia State College, Bakersfield

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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Page 514 note 1 Eldred Jones made these comments at the Seminar on African Literature and the University Curriculum held at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, 1963; see Moore, Gerald (ed.), African Literature and the Universities (Ibadan, 1965), 8990.Google Scholar

Page 514 note 2 ‘Language of the Heart’, in Présence africaine (Paris), xxx, 58, 1966, p. 8.Google Scholar Joseph Okpaku, ‘Tradition, Culture, and Criticism’, in ibid. 70, 1969, p. 241.

Page 514 note 3 Okpaku, JosephTradition, Culture, and CritisismGoogle Scholar‘ in ibid. 70, 1969, p. 141.

Page 515 note 1 See Elders, Derek, in African Literature Today (London and New York), 5, 1971, pp. 143–7,Google Scholar who argues that Killam's book demonstrates ‘an unwillingness or inability to approach these works with anything like the integrity that academic expectations in an English or American context would demand and enforce’.

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Page 517 note 2 Iyasere, Solomon O., ‘The Rhetoric of African Fiction’, Ph.D. dissertation, New YorkState University, Binghamton, 1972, p. 11.Google Scholar

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