Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.
Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.
Professor F. Abiola Irele's publications include an annotated edition of Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor (1977), The African Experience in Literature and Ideology (1981; reprinted 1990), and an annotated edition of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1994; second edition 1999), as well as numerous articles and reviews and a recent volume of essays, The African Imagination (2001). He is a contributing editor to the new Norton Anthology of World Literature and is currently editor of Research in African Literatures. He is general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature.
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Preface Acknowledgments Maps Chronology 1. Africa and orality Liz Gunner 2. The folk tale and its extensions Kwesi Yankah 3. Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa Tejumola Oaniyan 4. Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa Sabra Webber 5. Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa Lupenga Mphande 6. African oral epics Isidore Okpehwo 7. The oral tradition in the African diaspora Maureen Warner-Lewis 8. Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama Keith Q. Warner 9. Africa and writing Alain Ricard 10. Ethiopian literature Teodros Kiros 11. African literature in Arabic Farida Abu-Haidar 12. The Swahili literary tradition: and intercultural heritage Alamin Mazrui 13. Africa and the European Renaissance Silvie Kandé 14. The literature of slavery and abolition Moira Ferguson 15. Discourses of empire Robert Eric Livingston 16. African-language literatures of Southern Africa Daniel P. Kuene 17. Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngugi's later novels Ann Biersteker 18. The emergence of written Hausa literature Ausseina Alidou 19. Literature in Yoruba: poetry and prose traveling theatre and modern drama Karin Barber 20. African literature and the colonial factor Simon Gikandi 21. The formative journals and institutions Milton Krieger 22. Literature in Afrikaans Ampie Coetzee 23. East African literature in English Simon Gikandi 24. Anglophone literature of Central Africa Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells 25. West African literature in English: beginnings to the mid-seventies Dan Izebaye 26. South African literature in English David Attwell 27. African literature in French: Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period Mildred Mortimer 28. North African literature in French Patricia Geesey 29. Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean Bénédicte Maguiere 30. African literature in Spanish Mabre Ngom 31. African literature in Portuguese Russell Hamilton 32. Popular literature in Africa Ode S. Ogede 33. Caribbean literature in French: origins and development Nick Nesbitt 34. Caribbean literature in Spanish Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 35. Anglophone Caribbean literature Elaine Savory 36. The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude Movement F. Abiola Irele 37. Postcolonial Caribbean identities J. Michael Dash 38. African literature and post independence disillusionment Derek Wright 39. 'Postcolonial' African and Caribbean literature Adele King 40. Modernism and postmodernism in African literature Ato Quayson.
Preface Acknowledgments Maps Chronology 1. Africa and orality Liz Gunner 2. The folk tale and its extensions Kwesi Yankah 3. Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa Tejumola Oaniyan 4. Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa Sabra Webber 5. Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa Lupenga Mphande 6. African oral epics Isidore Okpehwo 7. The oral tradition in the African diaspora Maureen Warner-Lewis 8. Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama Keith Q. Warner 9. Africa and writing Alain Ricard 10. Ethiopian literature Teodros Kiros 11. African literature in Arabic Farida Abu-Haidar 12. The Swahili literary tradition: and intercultural heritage Alamin Mazrui 13. Africa and the European Renaissance Silvie Kandé 14. The literature of slavery and abolition Moira Ferguson 15. Discourses of empire Robert Eric Livingston 16. African-language literatures of Southern Africa Daniel P. Kuene 17. Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngugi's later novels Ann Biersteker 18. The emergence of written Hausa literature Ausseina Alidou 19. Literature in Yoruba: poetry and prose traveling theatre and modern drama Karin Barber 20. African literature and the colonial factor Simon Gikandi 21. The formative journals and institutions Milton Krieger 22. Literature in Afrikaans Ampie Coetzee 23. East African literature in English Simon Gikandi 24. Anglophone literature of Central Africa Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells 25. West African literature in English: beginnings to the mid-seventies Dan Izebaye 26. South African literature in English David Attwell 27. African literature in French: Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period Mildred Mortimer 28. North African literature in French Patricia Geesey 29. Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean Bénédicte Maguiere 30. African literature in Spanish Mabre Ngom 31. African literature in Portuguese Russell Hamilton 32. Popular literature in Africa Ode S. Ogede 33. Caribbean literature in French: origins and development Nick Nesbitt 34. Caribbean literature in Spanish Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 35. Anglophone Caribbean literature Elaine Savory 36. The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude Movement F. Abiola Irele 37. Postcolonial Caribbean identities J. Michael Dash 38. African literature and post independence disillusionment Derek Wright 39. 'Postcolonial' African and Caribbean literature Adele King 40. Modernism and postmodernism in African literature Ato Quayson.
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