TY - BOOK AU - Das Ajay TI - Modern African Literature SN - 978-93-83026-47-0 U1 - 820.996 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New delhi. PB - Pearls books. N1 - 1.Introduction 2.The african imagination 3.Literature in african language 4.Literary background 5.Contemporary african plays 6.An understanding of wole soyinka's yoruban world view 7.Chinua achebe:literary relations 8.The crisis of cultural memory in chinua achebe's things fall apart 9.Postcolonial identity and the position of english in african literature 10.The criticism of african fiction:its nature and function 11.Language and culture in african postcolonial literature 12.Examining canonisation in modern african literature 13.Perspective on the african novel 14.Thematic changes in postcolonial african literature:from colonialism to neocolonialism 15.South african theatre and the truth and reconciliation 16.J.M Coetzee, Ethics and the novel:some reflections on waiting for the barbarians N2 - African literature is the body of traditional oral and written literature in Afro-asiatic and african language together with works written by africans in european languages.Traditional written literature which is limited to a smaller geographic area than is oral literature is most characteristic of those sub-saharan cultures that have participated in the culture of the mediterranean ER -