{"product_id":"african-literature-9781405112000","title":"African Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers all genres and critical schools\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the intellectual context for understanding African literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFacilitates the future development of African literary criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This anthology represents a gathering of the best critical work on African literature and on larger questions of literary history, the sociology of literature, criticism and theory. In this magnificent book, we have a collection of the best that has been thought and written about African literary culture and the modern imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSimon Gikandi, Professor of English, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Introduces the material in a crisp, always engaged, sometimes provocative manner .... Diverse perspectives through the rich dynamics of dialogue and debate. Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Backgrounds:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Africa and Writing: Alain Ricard (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Literary History in a Nutshell: Albert S. Gérard (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Politics, Culture, and Literary Form: Bernth Lindfors (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. African Literature in Portuguese: Russell G. Hamilton (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. North African Writing: Anissa Talahite (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. A Continent and its Literatures in French: Jonathan Ngate (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. African Literature and the Colonial Factor: Simon Gikandi (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. African Literature: Myth or Reality?: V. Y. Mudimbe (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Orality, Literacy, and the Interface:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Africa and Orality: Liz Gunner (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature: Abiola Irele (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Oral Literature and Modern African Literature: Isidore Okpewho (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Women’s Oral Genres: Mary E. Modupe Kolawole (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.The Oral Artist’s Script: Harold Scheub (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Writer, Writing, and Function:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Novelist as Teacher: Chinua Achebe (1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Truth of Fiction: Chinua Achebe (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics: Nadine Gordimer (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Nobel Lecture: Naguib Mahfouz (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Redefining Relevance: Njabulo S. Ndebele (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Preparing Ourselves for Freedom: Albie Sachs (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Creativity in\/and Adversarial Contexts:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced: Wole Soyinka (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer’s Block: Micere Githae Mugo (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Containing Cockroaches (Memories of Incarceration Reconstructed in Exile): Jack Mapanje (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Writing Against Neo-Colonialism: Ngugi wa Thiong’O (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. The Writer and Responsibility: Breyten Bretenbach (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Dissidence and Creativity: Nawal El Saadawi (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Culture Beyond Color? A South African Dilemma: Zoë Wicomb (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. In Praise of Exile: Nuruddin Farah (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. The African Writer’s Experience of European Literature: D. Marechera (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics: Negritude and\u003c\/b\u003e Traditionalism:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century: Léopold Sédar Senghor (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. What is Négritude?: Abiola Irele (1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Negritude and a New Africa: An Update: Peter S. Thompson (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Prodigals, Come Home!: Chinweizu (1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition: Wole Soyinka (1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. My Signifier is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African: Adélékè Adéèkó (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism: Kwame Anthony Appiah (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. On National Culture: Frantz Fanon (1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. True and False Pluralism: Paulin Hountondji (1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. “An Open Letter to Africans” c\/o The Punic One-Party State: Sony Labou Tansi (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Resistance Theory\/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers for Nativism: Benita Parry (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: The Language of African Literature:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. The Dead End of African Literature: Obiajunwa Wali (1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. The Language of African Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong’O (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Anamnesis in the Language of Writing: Assia Djebar (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. African-Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope: Daniel P. Kunene (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: On Genres:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Background to the West African Novel: Emmanuel N. Obiechina (1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Languages of the Novel: A Lover’s Reflections: André Brink (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Realism and Naturalism in African Fiction: Neil Lazarus (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. “Who Am I?”: Fact and Fiction in African First-Person Narrative: Mineke Schipper (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa: Tejumola Olaniyan (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy: Wole Soyinka (1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Introduction to King Oedipus: Tawfiq Al-Hakim (1949).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. Poetry as Dramatic Performance: Kofi Anyidoho (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. “Azikwelwa” (We Will Not Ride): Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry: Anne McClintock (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Revolutionary Practice and Style in Lusophone Liberation Poetry: Emmanuel Ngara (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Theorizing the Criticism of African Literature:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. Academic Problems and Critical Techniques: Eldred D. Jones (1965).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55. African Literature, Western Critics: Rand Bishop (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56. A Formal Approach to African Literature: Kenneth W. Harrow (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57. African Absence, a Literature without a Voice: Ambroise Kom (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58. The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory: Biodun Jeyifo (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59. Reading through Western Eyes: Christopher L. Miller (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60. The Logic of Agency in African Literary Criticism: Olakunle George (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61. Exclusionary Practices in African Literary Criticism: Florence Stratton (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: Marxism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62. Towards a Marxist Sociology of African Literature: Omafume F. Onoge (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63. Writers in Politics: The Power of Words and the Words of Power: Ngugi wa Thiong’O (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64. National Liberation and Culture: Amilcar Cabral (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65. Concerning National Culture: Agostinho Neto (1979).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66. Masks and Marx: The Marxist Ethos vis-à-vis African Revolutionary Theory and Praxis: Ayi Kwei Armah (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67. Marxist Aesthetics: An Open-Ended Legacy: Chidi Amuta (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Feminism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e68. To Be an African Woman Writer – an Overview and a Detail: Ama Ata Aidoo (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e69. The Heroine in Arab Literature: Nawal El Saadawi (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e70. Women and Creative Writing in Africa: Flora Nwapa (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e71. African Motherhood – Myth and Reality: Lauretta Ngcobo (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e72. Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context: Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e73. Feminism with a Small “f”: Buchi Emecheta (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e74. Writing Near the Bone: Yvonne Vera (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e75. Some Notes on African Feminism: Carole Boyce Davies (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e76. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology: Obioma Nnaemeka (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e77. Enlightenment Epistemology and the Invention of Polygyny: Uzo Esonwanne (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e78. Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of Modernity: Ato Quayson (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postmodernism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e79. Genetic Structuralism as a Critical Technique (Notes Toward a Sociological Theory of the African.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovel): Sunday O. Anozie (1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e80. In Praise of Alienation: Abiola Irele (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e81. In the Wake of Colonialism and Modernity: Biodun Jeyifo (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e82. Postructuralism and Postcolonial Discourse: Simon Gikandi (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e83. Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria: Robert J. C. Young (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e84. The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term “Post-colonialism”: Anne McClintock (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e85. Postmodernity, Postcoloniality, and African Studies: Tejumola Olaniyan (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e86. Postcolonialism and Postmodernism: Ato Quayson (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e87. Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?: Kwame Anthony Appiah (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e88. Postmodernism and Black Writing in South Africa: Lewis Nkosi (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e89. African-Language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism: Karin Barber (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII: Ecocriticism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e90. Ecoing the Other(s): The Call of Global Green and Black African Responses: William Slaymaker (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e91. Different Shades of Green: Ecocriticism and African Literature: Byron Caminero-Santangelo (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e92. Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women’s Literature: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e93. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism: Rob Nixon (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII: Queer, Postcolonial:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e94. “Wheyting Be Dat?”: The Treatment of Homosexuality in African Literature: Chris Dunton (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e95. Out in Africa: Gaurav Desai (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e96. Toward a Lesbian Continuum? Or Reclaiming the Erotic: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (1997).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e97. Queer Futures: The Coming-Out Novel in South Africa: Brenna Munro (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407846613335,"sku":"9781405112000","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405112000.jpg?v=1730500724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-literature-9781405112000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}