{"product_id":"african-literature-isbn-9781405112017","title":"African Literature","description":"\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 \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 \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 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTejumola Olaniyan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in English at the University of Wisconsin. His publications include: \u003ci\u003eScars of Conquest\/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eArrest the Music: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and he is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Drama and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAto Quayson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies, University of Toronto. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eStrategic Transformation in Nigerian Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003ePostcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process?\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eRelocating Postcolonialism\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2002) and \u003ci\u003eCalibrations: Reading for the Social\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a Nigerian newspaper, more than ten years ago, the distinguished critic, Biodun Jeyifo, lamented what he called the \"homelessness\" of the writings of African literary theorists and critics. This landmark anthology at long last creates a home for the key texts, bringing together work that otherwise exists only in disparate journals and essay collections, and largely inaccessible texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCovering all genres and critical schools of literary theory, the anthology provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature. The material is organized around significant topics in the field, including feminist criticism, postmodernism, and Marxist theory, and reflects the chronological development of African literary criticism. Writings include those written by scholars with often fiercely divergent viewpoints, exemplifying the drama and excitement of debates in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988703199461,"sku":"NP9781405112017","price":61.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405112017.jpg?v=1761781254","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/african-literature-isbn-9781405112017","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}