Laurence Margaret

Long drums & cannons : Nigerian dramatists and novelists, 1952-1966 / Long drums and cannons Nigerian dramatists and novelists, 1952-1966 Margaret Laurence ; edited with an introduction by Nora Foster Stovel. - Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2001. - lxiii, 270 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Douglas Killam -- Preface / Christian Riegel -- Talking Drums and Dancing Masks: Introducing Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons / Nora Foster Stovel -- Nigerian Literature Then and Now / Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah -- Long Drums and Cannons -- 1. Voices of Life, Dance of Death: Wole Soyinka -- 2. Rituals of Destiny: John Pepper Clark -- 3. The Thickets of Our Separateness: Chinua Achebe -- 4. A Twofold Forest: Amos Tutuola -- 5. Masks of the City: Cyprian Ekwensi -- 6. Other Voices. T. M. Aluko. Elechi Amadi. Nkem Nwankwo. Flora Nwapa. Onuora Nzekwu. Gabriel Okara -- Tribalism As Us Versus Them -- App. II. Civil War in Nigeria -- App. III. Ethnic Groups Discussed in Long Drums and Cannons.

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