Theories of Africans

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. White octavo, x, 328 pages, b&w illustrations; 24 cm. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine foot, very mild rubbing to corners, ink underlining and sentence circles (only a few) to about 23 pages, very mild rubbing to front cover-top edge, slightly bent front cover, two light creases to front cover, light soiling to covers and front pastedown, exceedingly light soiling to fore-edges, else Very Good(+). Paperback. ISBN: 0226528022

Signed and dated by Dr. Dorothy Miller. Associative copy. Series: Black literature and culture. Contents: Introduction: reading through Western eyes --; Ethnicity and ethics --; Orality through literacy: Mande verbal art after the letter --; L'Enfant noir, totemism, and suspended animism --; Les Soleils des independances and Francophone dialogue --; Senegalese women writers, silence, and letters: before the canon's roar --; Conclusion. African literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.