Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 18, Issue 1 (1979)

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World Literature Written in English, Volume 18, Issue 1 (1979)

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Miscellany

Honoring Joseph Jones
Editors
Page: 1
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Africa

The African writer and the western critic
Cecil Abrahams
Pages: 6-7
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Article
The context of black South African literature
Cecil Abrahams
Pages: 8-19
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Article
Social and political pressures that shape literature in Southern Africa
Bessie Head
Pages: 20-26
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Article
Culture and liberation
Alex La Guma
Pages: 27-36
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Article
Modern African literature and the legacy of cultural colonialism
Bahadur Tejani
Pages: 37-54
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About the authors
Page: 55
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Interview with Grace Ogot
Bernth Lindfors
Pages: 57-68
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Article
The theme of sacrifice in the novels of Nuruddin Farah
Judith Cochrane
Pages: 69-77
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The flash of fire: Poems from Africa
Hugh Webb
Pages: 78-89
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Twenty “new” poems by Doris Lessing
Robin Graham
Pages: 90-98
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Original Articles

Article
Ogali A. Oga Li and coal city: The pamphleteer as novelist
Peter K. Avers
Pages: 99-113
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Africa

Article
Children's books by well‐known African authors
Nancy J. Schmidt
Pages: 114-123
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Australia

Christina Stead as an Australian writer
Diana Brydon
Pages: 124-129
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Canada

Review Article
Wagner, Anton & Richard plant, eds. Canada's lost plays: The nineteenth century, volume one. Toronto: Canadian theatre review publications, 1978
Christopher Johnson
Pages: 130-132
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Malaysia

Review Article
Lloyd Fernando. Scorpion Orchid. Singapore: Heinemann, 1976
Uma Parameswaran
Pages: 133-134
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Mauritius

Article
Beeharry's that others might live
Arthur Pollard
Pages: 135-138
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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New Zealand

Review Article
Paul Day. John Mulgan; F. M. McKay. Eileen Duggan: J. E. Thomson. Denis Glover; J. E. Weir. R. A. K. Mason. New Zealand writers and their work. Gen. Ed. James Bertram. Wellington, N. Z.: Oxford University Press, 1977
R. F. Anderson
Pages: 139-143
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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The Pacific (Western Samoa)

Article
Albert wendt's Pouliuli
John B. Beston
Pages: 144-149
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Singapore

Edwin Thumboo interviewed by Peter Nazareth
Peter Nazareth
Pages: 151-171
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Review Article
Goh Poh Seng. If we dream too long. Singapore: Island Press, 1972. The immolation. Singapore: Island Press, 1977
A. Sun
Pages: 172-178
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Review Article
Ee Tiang Hong. Myths for a wilderness. Singapore: Heinemann educational books (Asia) Ltd., 1976
Prabhu S. Guptara
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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West Indies

Caribbean short fiction: A bibliography
S. B. Bandara
Pages: 181-234
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Article
The world of Jean Rhys's short stories
A. C. Morrell
Pages: 235-244
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Article
Memory and the Edenic myth: Claude McKay's green hills of Jamaica
A. L. McLeod
Pages: 245-254
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Review Article
Maureen Duffy. The passionate shepherdess: Aphra Behn 1640–89. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977
Elaine Campbell
Pages: 255-257
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Miscellany

Notes
Michel Fabre, Peter Alcock & Barbara Hau'ofa
Pages: 258-271
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Editorial board
Pages: ebi-ebii
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