Two Minds, One World: Soyinka and Walcott Meet.
Enslavement and transplantation of Black Africans in the New World led to dispersal of African cultures that have left a permanent imprint on African American and Caribbean literatures. The result of the twinned historical event is that in works of African and Black Caribbean writers there are great...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 579 - 594 |
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Journal of Pan African Studies
Sep2018
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