Peter Nazareth
Biographic Data
| ID | 158694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Nazareth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Nazareth |
| SIGNATURE | NAZARETH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nineteen Fifty-Five“: Alice, Elvis And The Black Matrix
(2007). Nineteen Fifty-Five“: Alice, Elvis And The Black Matrix. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 150-162
Path of Thunder: Meeting Bessie Head
Bernth Lindfors invited me some years ago to give a presentation about my experience with Bessie Head in the International Writing Program in 1977 on a panel he was planning for the annual meeting of the African Literature Association, but I did not reply. When I next met Bernth, I told him that I had not replied because I was conflicted: I did not want to draw attention to her behavior instead of her fiction because I was mindful of the dictum b…
The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa
The Invisible Weevil
Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones (1961-1995)
Papa's got a brand new bag: Current trends in African English fiction
This paper examines some new trends in African English creative writing as they are manifest in the following novels: The Gunny Sack by M. G. Vassanji (1989); To Every Birth Its Blood by Mongane Serote (1990); Matigari by Ngũg? wa Thiong'o (1989); The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by Syl Cheney‐Coker (1990); and The General Is Up by Peter Nazareth (1991). There are some major differences between African English novels written just before and a…
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
The narrator as artist and the reader as critic in Season of migration to the North
Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa
The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover
Praisesong for the Widow
Brown Girl, Brownstones
The story of the coming of age of the daughter of Barbadian immigrants living in Brooklyn druing the Depression and the Second World War. She realizes that only by accepting the dreams of both her parents can she gain independence. The author has previously written Praisesong for the Widow .
Practical Problems and Technical Solutions in Writing my Two Novels
The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility
The Social Responsibility of the East African Writer
He, Nigeria, in 1968, David Rubadiri said that the colonial experience en veloped everything and almost stifled any indigenous attempt at expression through the newly acquired language.If one passed through a secondary school in East Africa, he said, the best one came out with was an ability to write a composition or a letter in the best basic English and the best gram mar.Rubadiri noted that when the East African writer started to write poems, h…
One a Week with Water: Rhymes and Notes
The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa
The Emancipation of Wakefield Clay
Coloured Man's Burden-Albert Wendt
Nine Malawian Plays
Rosie's Theme
The Clown in the Slave Ship
The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa
The Invisible Weevil
Path of Thunder: Meeting Bessie Head
Bernth Lindfors invited me some years ago to give a presentation about my experience with Bessie Head in the International Writing Program in 1977 on a panel he was planning for the annual meeting of the African Literature Association, but I did not reply. When I next met Bernth, I told him that I had not replied because I was conflicted: I did not want to draw attention to her behavior instead of her fiction because I was mindful of the dictum b…
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa
The Social Responsibility of the East African Writer
He, Nigeria, in 1968, David Rubadiri said that the colonial experience en veloped everything and almost stifled any indigenous attempt at expression through the newly acquired language.If one passed through a secondary school in East Africa, he said, the best one came out with was an ability to write a composition or a letter in the best basic English and the best gram mar.Rubadiri noted that when the East African writer started to write poems, h…
The Clown in the Slave Ship
Nine Malawian Plays
Rosie's Theme
The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa
The Emancipation of Wakefield Clay
Coloured Man's Burden-Albert Wendt
The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility
The Social Responsibility of the East African Writer
He, Nigeria, in 1968, David Rubadiri said that the colonial experience en veloped everything and almost stifled any indigenous attempt at expression through the newly acquired language.If one passed through a secondary school in East Africa, he said, the best one came out with was an ability to write a composition or a letter in the best basic English and the best gram mar.Rubadiri noted that when the East African writer started to write poems, h…
One a Week with Water: Rhymes and Notes
Practical Problems and Technical Solutions in Writing my Two Novels
Brown Girl, Brownstones
The story of the coming of age of the daughter of Barbadian immigrants living in Brooklyn druing the Depression and the Second World War. She realizes that only by accepting the dreams of both her parents can she gain independence. The author has previously written Praisesong for the Widow .
The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover
Praisesong for the Widow
The narrator as artist and the reader as critic in Season of migration to the North
Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
Literary reviews
Taking fiction beyond the text Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong'o Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro Oxford: Heinemann International. 1989. 175pp. £10.95hb The mystery of identity Solitaire Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Gareth Stanton and Nick Hindley London: Quartet. 1988. 111pp. £9.95hb The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan London: Quartet. 1988. 163pp. £11.95hb African conditions The A…
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
Papa's got a brand new bag: Current trends in African English fiction
This paper examines some new trends in African English creative writing as they are manifest in the following novels: The Gunny Sack by M. G. Vassanji (1989); To Every Birth Its Blood by Mongane Serote (1990); Matigari by Ngũg? wa Thiong'o (1989); The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by Syl Cheney‐Coker (1990); and The General Is Up by Peter Nazareth (1991). There are some major differences between African English novels written just before and a…
Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones (1961-1995)
The Invisible Weevil
The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa
Path of Thunder: Meeting Bessie Head
Bernth Lindfors invited me some years ago to give a presentation about my experience with Bessie Head in the International Writing Program in 1977 on a panel he was planning for the annual meeting of the African Literature Association, but I did not reply. When I next met Bernth, I told him that I had not replied because I was conflicted: I did not want to draw attention to her behavior instead of her fiction because I was mindful of the dictum b…
Nineteen Fifty-Five“: Alice, Elvis And The Black Matrix
(2007). Nineteen Fifty-Five“: Alice, Elvis And The Black Matrix. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 150-162
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