The historical novel in ayi kwei armah and david caute: African Literature, Socialist Literature, and the bourgeois cultural tradition

Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-248

  Booker, M Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84991575999     PISSN: 00111619     EISSN: 19399138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.1997.10543178     Document Type: Article

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