Formal Aspects of Fictive
Narrative in Africa
Garry Gillard
Contents
ABSTRACT
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Agatha Moudio's Son
1.3 A Man of the People
1.4 Houseboy
1.5 This Earth, My Brother
1.6 Two Thousand Seasons2.1 Introduction
2.2 The River Between
2.3 Things Fall Apart
2.4 Luis Bernardo Honwana
2.5 L'Enfant Noir
2.6 Two Thousand Seasons3.1 Introduction
3.2 Weep Not, Child
3.3 A Grain of Wheat
3.4 Why Are We So Blest?
3.5 Two Thousand Seasons4.1 Introduction
4.2 Things Fall Apart
4.3 No Longer At Ease
4.4 This Earth, My Brother
4.5 The River Between
4.6 Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Presentational Process
5.1.2 Presented World
5.2 Overall Mode of Presentation
5.2.1 Eating Chiefs
5.2.2 The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
5.2.3 The Man Died
5.2.4 The Palm-Wine Drinkard
5.2.5 The Combat
5.3 Detailed Analysis of Specific Works
5.3.1 Arrow of God
5.3.2 The Interpreters
5.3.3 Le Vieux Nègre et la Médaille
5.3.4 Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba6.1 Introduction
6.2 "N'Gor Niébé"
6.3 "Le Pagne Noir"
6.4 "Sarzan"
6.5 "Fixions"
6.6 "A Mercedes Funeral"
6.7 "Minutes of Glory"
6.8 "Girls at War"
6.9 "Civil Peace"
6.10 "Everything Counts"7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Voice
7.3 This Earth, My Brother
7.4 Les bouts de bois de dieu
7.5 L'enfant noirCHAPTER 8 INTERPRETIVE ABSTRACTIONS AND WORLD-VIEW
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Chinua Achebe
8.3 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
8.4 Ayi Kwei Armah
8.5 Wole SoyinkaCHAPTER 9 TOWARDS A CONCEPTION OF NARRATIVE ART IN AFRICA
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
9.3 A Grain of Wheat
9.4 The Voice
9.5 This Earth, My Brother
9.6 Things Fall Apart
9.7 Two Thousand Seasons
9.8 Season of Anomy
9.9 Conclusion
New: 3 August 1996
Now: 5 August 1996
HTML author: Garry Gillard