The Other/Missing Side to the Botched Permissions Request Story Characterized in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Eloquence of the Scribes: Veiled Censorship Attempt, Unreasonableness, Inflexibility, and Lack of Magnanimity Writ Large
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ABSTRACT:Ayi Kwei Armah levels some very serious and unfounded allegations against me in his The Eloquence of the Scribes pertaining to my request for permission to quote from his novels in my critical study of his writing while it was in production at Heinemann's USA station. As my side of the story of that ordeal will reveal, the reasons he gives for denying my petition for permission clearance are puzzling, but one thing is certain: he wants, and quite needlessly so, to place me, an innocent academic, at the center of his stormy royalty disputes with his British publisher.
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Founded in 1970, Research in African Literatures is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa, as well as information on African publishing, announcements of importance to Africanists, and notes and queries of literary interest. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every issue, often presented as review essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews.
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