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by: Charles R. Larson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9896
EAN: 9781856499316
ISBN: 1856499316
Label: Zed Books
Manufacturer: Zed Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: October 12, 2001
Publisher: Zed Books
Sales Rank: 1428528
Studio: Zed Books
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This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get their work published, let alone to support themselves financially from their writing. Charles R. Larson combines writers' own testimony, pen portraits of their lives, and factual investigation to explore the full dimensions of this problem.
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This book was published in 2001 by Charles Larson, an American scholar who has studied, taught and written about African lit for some 40 years. It was mainly a survey of the problems faced today by writers in Africa, based on his queries to local writers, critics, educators and publishers as well as other scholars.
The author cited a 1996 statistic that Africa contributed only 1.2% of the total of the world's book production. The author estimated the population of Sub-Saharan Africa ... Read More
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