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Childhood in African Literature
Eldred Durosimi JonesMarjorie Jones
其他書名
A Review
出版James Currey Publishers, 1998
主題Literary Collections / AfricanLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN08525552109780852555217
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YWQ0vmZBJ7cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description