{"product_id":"african-literature-9781405112017","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\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Backgrounds 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Africa and Writing 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlain Ricard (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sub-Saharan Africa’s Literary History in a Nutshell 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbert S. Ge´rard (1993)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Politics, Culture, and Literary Form 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernth Lindfors (1979)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 African Literature in Portuguese 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell G. Hamilton (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 North African Writing 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnissa Talahite (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Continent and its Literatures in French 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Ngate (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 African Literature and the Colonial Factor 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Gikandi (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 African Literature: Myth or Reality? 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eV. Y. Mudimbe (1985)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Orality, Literacy, and the Interface 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Africa and Orality 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiz Gunner (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Orality, Literacy, and African Literature 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbiola Irele (1989)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Oral Literature and Modern African Literature 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsidore Okpewho (1992)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Women’s Oral Genres 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary E. Modupe Kolawole (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Oral Artist’s Script 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarold Schenb (2002)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Writer, Writing, and Function 101\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Novelist as Teacher 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinua Achebe (1965)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Truth of Fiction 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinua Achebe (1978)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadine Gordimer (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Nobel Lecture 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaguib Mahfouz (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Redefining Relevance 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNjabulo S. Ndebele (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Preparing Ourselves for Freedom 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbie Sachs (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Creativity in\/and Adversarial Contexts 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWole Soyinka (2001)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer’s Block 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMicere Githae Mugo (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Containing Cockroaches (Memories of Incarceration Reconstructed in Exile) 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Mapanje (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Writing Against Neo-Colonialism 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNgugi wa Thiong’O (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Writer and Responsibility 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreyten Breytenbach (1983)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Dissidence and Creativity 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNawal El Saadawi (1996)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Culture Beyond Color? A South African Dilemma 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZoe¨ Wicomb (1993)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 In Praise of Exile 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNuruddin Farah (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The African Writer’s Experience of European Literature 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. Marechera (1987)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics: Negritude and Traditionalism 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe´opold Se´dar Senghor (1970)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 What is Ne´gritude? 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbiola Irele (1977)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Negritude and a New Africa: An Update 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter S. Thompson (2002)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Prodigals, Come Home! 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinweizu (1973)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWole Soyinka (1975)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 My Signifier is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAde´le´ke` Ade´e`.ko´. (1998)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKwame Anthony Appiah (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 On National Culture 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon (1963)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 True and False Pluralism 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaulin Hountondji (1973)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 ‘‘An Open Letter to Africans’’ c\/o The Punic One-Party State 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSony Labou Tansi (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Resistance Theory\/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers for Nativism 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenita Parry (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: The Language of African Literature 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 The Dead End of African Literature? 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObiajunwa Wali (1963)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 The Language of African Literature 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNgugi wa Thiong’O (1986)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Anamnesis in the Language of Writing 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssia Djebar (1999)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 African-Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel P. Kunene (1992)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: On Genres 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Background to the West African Novel 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmmanuel N. Obiechina (1975)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Languages of the Novel: A Lover’s Reflections 333\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndre´ Brink (1998)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Realism and Naturalism in African Fiction 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeil Lazarus (1987)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 ‘‘Who Am I?’’: Fact and Fiction in African First-Person Narrative 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMineke Schipper (1985)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTejumola Olaniyan (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWole Soyinka (1973)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Introduction to King Oedipus 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTawfiq Al-Hakim (1949)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Poetry as Dramatic Performance 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKofi Anyidoho (1991)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 ‘‘Azikwelwa’’ (We Will Not Ride): Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry 391\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne McClintock (1987)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Revolutionary Practice and Style in Lusophone Liberation Poetry 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmmanuel Ngara (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Theorizing the Criticism of African Literature 409\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Academic Problems and Critical Techniques 411\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEldred D. Jones (1965)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 African Literature, Western Critics 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRand Bishop (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 A Formal Approach to African Literature 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKenneth W. Harrow (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 African Absence, a Literature without a Voice 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbroise Kom (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiodun Jeyifo (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Reading through Western Eyes 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher L. Miller (1990)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 Inherited Mandates in African Literary Criticism: The Intrinsic Paradigm 449\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlakunle George (2003)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Exclusionary Practices in African Literary Criticism 455\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorence Stratton (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: Marxism 461\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Towards a Marxist Sociology of African Literature 463\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOmafume F. Onoge (1986)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 Writers in Politics: The Power of Words and the Words of Power 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNgugi wa Thiong’O (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 National Liberation and Culture 484\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmilcar Cabral (1970)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 Concerning National Culture 492\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgostinho Neto (1979)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66 Masks and Marx: The Marxist Ethos vis-a`-vis African Revolutionary Theory and Praxis 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAyi Kwei Armah (1985)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67 Marxist Aesthetics: An Open-Ended Legacy 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChidi Amuta (1989)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Feminism 511\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e68 To Be an African Woman Writer – an Overview and a Detail 513\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAma Ata Aidoo (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e69 The Heroine in Arab Literature 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNawal El Saadawi (1980)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e70 Women and Creative Writing in Africa 526\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlora Nwapa (1998)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e71 African Motherhood – Myth and Reality 533\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauretta Ngcobo (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e72 Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context 542\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMolara Ogundipe-Leslie (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e73 Feminism with a Small ‘‘f’’! 551\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuchi Emecheta (1988)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e74 Writing Near the Bone 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYvonne Vera (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e75 Some Notes on African Feminism 561\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarole Boyce Davies (1986)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e76 Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology 570\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObioma Nnaemeka (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e77 Enlightenment Epistemology and the Invention of Polygyny 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUzo Esonwanne (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e78 Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of Modernity 585\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAto Quayson (2000)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postmodernism 593\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e79 Genetic Structuralism as a Critical Technique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(Notes Toward a Sociological Theory of the African Novel) 595\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday O. Anozie (1971)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e80 In Praise of Alienation 599\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbiola Irele (1982)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e81 In the Wake of Colonialism and Modernity 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiodun Jeyifo (2000)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e82 Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Discourse 614\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Gikandi (2004)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e83 Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria 621\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert J. C. Young (2001)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e84 The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘‘Post-colonialism’’ 628\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne McClintock (1992)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e85 Postmodernity, Postcoloniality, and African Studies 637\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTejumola Olaniyan (2003)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e86 Postcolonialism and Postmodernism 646\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAto Quayson (2000)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e87 Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? 654\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKwame Anthony Appiah (1991)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e88 Postmodernism and Black Writing in South Africa 665\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLewis Nkosi (1998)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e89 African-Language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism 670\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarin Barber (1995)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII: Ecocriticism 681\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e90 Ecoing the Other(s): The Call of Global Green and Black African Responses 683\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Slaymaker (2001)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e91 Different Shades of Green: Ecocriticism and African Literature 698\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eByron Caminero-Santangelo (2007)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e92 Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women’s Literature 707\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (1998)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e93 Environmentalism and Postcolonialism 715\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRob Nixon (2005)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII: Queer, Postcolonial 725\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e94 ‘‘Wheyting be dat?’’: The Treatment of Homosexuality in African Literature 727\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Dunton (1989)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e95 Out in Africa 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaurav Desai (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e96 Toward a Lesbian Continuum? Or Reclaiming the Erotic 746\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (1997)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e97 Queer Futures: The Coming-Out Novel in South Africa 753\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrenna Munro (2007)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 765\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407846580567,"sku":"9781405112017","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405112017.jpg?v=1730500724","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-literature-9781405112017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}