African Literature An Anthology of Criticism and Theory [Hardcover]

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• Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate
  
• Covers all genres and critical schools
  
• Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature
  
• Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism

Introduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson.

Part I: Backgrounds:.

1. Africa and Writing: Alain Ricard (2004).

2. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Literary History in a Nutshell: Albert S. Gérard (1993).

3. Politics, Culture, and Literary Form: Bernth Lindfors (1979).

4. African Literature in Portuguese: Russell G. Hamilton (2004).

5. North African Writing: Anissa Talahite (1997).

6. A Continent and its Literatures in French: Jonathan Ngate (1988).

7. African Literature and the Colonial Factor: Simon Gikandi (2004).

8. African Literature: Myth or Reality?: V. Y. Mudimbe (1985).

Part II: Orality, Literacy, and the Interface:.

9. Africa and Orality: Liz Gunner (2004).

10. Orality, Literacy, and African Literature: Abiola Irele (1989).

11. Oral Literature and Modern African Literature: Isidore Okpewho (1992).

12. Women’s Oral Genres: Mary E. Modupe Kolawole (1997).

13.The Oral Artist’s Script: Harold Scheub (2002).

Part III: Writer, Writing, and Function:.

14. The Novelist as Teacher: Chinua Acheblc7