Talk:The Emergence of African Fiction

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Did you know... that Charles Larson's The Emergence of African Fiction was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 13:33, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Charles Larson's The Emergence of African Fiction (1972) was an early attempt to get to an "African aesthetic", but in the eyes of many critics fell short and implicitly employed European standards? Sources: [1], [2]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Milena Smit.

Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 17:49, 2 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Excellent article, thank you; QPQ-related amendments in progress; this article is good to go, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 11:32, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting to Prep 6, with minor modification as to comply with 200 characters formatting limit. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 13:33, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]