MDS 896
Wording: Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages African literatures
Dewmoji: 📚🗨🐘
0 Computer science, information & general works 252,013 ℹ️ | 1 Philosophy and Psychology 270,129 🧠 | 2 Religion 681,242 🙏 | 3 Social sciences 1,328,382 👫 | 4 Language 209,883 💬 | 5 Natural sciences & mathematics 431,918 🔬 | 6 Technology 940,635 💡 | 7 Arts & recreation 1,031,850 🎨 | 8 Literature & rhetoric 1,436,736 📚 | 9 History & geography 837,760 🗺️ |
80 Literature, rhetoric & criticism 100,940 📚 | 81 American literature in English 587,090 🍁 | 82 English & Old English literatures 356,026 🏴 | 83 German & related literatures 121,338 🇩🇪 | 84 French & related literatures 84,536 🇫🇷 | 85 Italian, Romanian & related literatures 38,450 🇮🇹 | 86 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures 60,869 🇪🇸 | 87 Latin & Italic literatures 8,254 📜 | 88 Classical & modern Greek literatures 14,545 🇬🇷 | 89 Literatures of other languages 64,605 🗨 |
890 Literatures of other specific languages and language families 1,349 | 891 East Indo-European and Celtic literatures 29,190 | 892 Afro-Asiatic literatures 6,981 🐪 | 893 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures 288 🐊 | 894 Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia 5,436 🦅 | 895 Literatures of East and Southeast Asia 17,280 🈯 | 896 African literatures 1,156 🐘 | 897 Literatures of North American native languages 362 🦃 | 898 Literatures of South American native languages 278 🍠 | 899 Literatures of non-Austronesian languages of Oceania, of Austronesian languages, of miscellaneous languages 2,285 |
896.0 General 29 | 896.1 Khoisan languages 14 | 896.2 27 | 896.3 Niger-Congo languages 739 | 896.4 3 | 896.5 Nilotic, Nubian, Sudanic and Saharan languages 12 | 896.6 5 | 896.7 2 | 896.8 | 896.9 12 |
Selected Works under MDS 896 (1,156)
- Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories by Beryl Markham
- Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
- Granta 92: The View from Africa by Ian Jack
- Song of Lawino / Song of Ocol by Okot P'Bitek
- Sunjata by Bamba Suso
- Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga by D. O. Fagunwa
- Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka
- I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa by Charlotte Bruner
- The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Zaire) by Daniel Biebuyck
- The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition (African Epic Series) by Fa-Digi Sisòkò
- La la Salama by Hannah Bozylinsky
- The Mountain and the Sea by Kwame Dawes
- Doomi Golo―The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts) by Boubacar Boris Diop
- Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic by Mazisi Kunene
- The Epic of Askia Mohammed (African Epic) by Thomas A. Hale
- Poems from Black Africa by Langston Hughes
- No Edges: Swahili Stories (Calico Series, 7) by Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel
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