Description: The Text: This memoir on the ancient sources and future resources of African literature by the author of Two Thousand Seasons, KMT, and other novels gives colonial Africanist preconceptions of Africa's literary heritage a clean burial. Citing new evidence on oral and written traditions, it shows that Africa's old oral culture, antedating the pyramids, was the matrix from which emerged the hieroglyphic literature of ancient Egypt. Armah argues that the tradition of ancient Egypt and feudal Africa, ancestral treasury of concepts and images, a profound source of artistic inspiration, and organizational ideas for writers and intellectuals ready to work for an African future. This book is brand new and is professionally packaged. -Alligator Swamp
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Book Title: The Eloquence of the Scribes
Book Series: Ayi Kwei Armah
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Personalized: No
Features: Rare Copy
Topic: Colonialism, History of Ideas, Literary Criticism
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Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Scribe
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
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Edition: First Edition
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Publication Year: 2006
Type: Memoir from an African Literary Critic
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Expressionism, Medieval, Modernism, Naturalism, Post-Modernism, Realism, Renaissance, Romantic Period
Era: 2000s
Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
Genre: Folklore & Mythology, Historical, History, Modern & Contemporary, Philosophy, Politics & Society, Psychiatry
Country/Region of Manufacture: Senegal
Personalization Instructions: Read with Wat Nt Shemsw by Ayi Kwei Armah and African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period 2780-330 BC
