Turning the Page: African Writers on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century
1992; Indiana University Press; Issue: 56 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2935036
ISSN0041-1191
Autores Tópico(s)Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Resumomeanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous with ultimate authority, with prestige, with awesome, sometimes dangerous persuasion, to have Prime Time, a TV talk show, to have the gift of gab as well as that of speaking in tongues. As the twenty-first century approaches, the word flies through space, bounces from satellites, now nearer than it has ever been to the heaven from which it was believed to have come. But its
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