Stylistic Criticism and the African Novel: A Study of the Language, Art and Content of African Fiction

Achebe Achebe's aesthetic African literature African Novel African writers Aiyéró Amos Tutuola Anomy Arabs Armah Arrow of God artistic audience Ayi Kwei Armah beauty Bible Captain Winterbottom Cartel chapter character Chief Priest Chinua Achebe colonial criticism of African culture darkness death described destroyers elders epic Ernst Fischer European example expression eyes Ezeulu feeling fiction Gikonyo Grain of Wheat human idiolect Igbo Ijaw Iriyise Izongo Kenya Kihika language Lesotho light linguistic choices linguistic format literary criticism mind Mugo Mumbi narrative narrator Ngugi Nigeria Nwaka Ofeyi Okara Okolo Okolo's Okperi Palm-Wine Drinkard para-linguistic affective devices passage pidgin political proverbs readability reader reference reflected relationship rhythm Season of Anomy sentence social society Sologa songs Soyinka speaker speech story structure style stylistic criticism symbol talking technique tenor of discourse theme things thinking Thousand Seasons traditional Uhuru Umuaro utterance voice white man's Wole Soyinka words Zaccheus