An African Focus : A Study of Ayi Kwei Armah's Narrative Africanization Book

	Preface	5
I	Introduction	8
II	Background: The Contextual Chapter	25
III	From Protagonist to Hero: The Principal Characters	43
	The Man	44
	Baako	52
	Solo & Modin	59
	We	65
	Densu	72
	From Protagonist to Hero	76
IV	From Narrative to Story: The Relations and the Distances	82
	A Slow Start	83
	A Retrospective Narrating	87
	An Anachronic Relation	90
	A Simple Chronology	93
	A Conventional Narration	96
	Comparing Relations and Distances	99
V	From Impersonal-Manipulative to Personal-Authoritative: The Narrators	110
	A Filter Narrator	111
	An Almost Abstract Impersonal Construct	116
	Three Diarists	121
	A We-Narrator	123
	A Griot	134
	Narrative Situations	136
VI	From Cambridge, Mass, to Dar es Salaam: The Narratee	141
	A Precisely Defined Narratee	143
	A Much Less Precisely Defined Narratee	150
	Two "Blest" African Intellectuals	156
	The We-Narratees	162
	The Literate Africa	167
	Open and Closed Narratives	170
VII	Narrative Africanization and Osiris Rising: The Concluding Chapter	174
	Bibliography	206
	Index	217