African Literature
African Literature as Political Philosophy
African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe\'s Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong\'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from
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Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender
The first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective, looking at the effect of gender and patriarchy on African literture and the contributions of African women writers. Also includes new readings of canonical male writers.
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Encyclopedia of African Literature
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
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A History of South African Literature
This book is a critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions.
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Student Encyclopedia of African Literature
Some 600 alphabetically arranged entries chronicle the growing field of African literature in a work written expressly for students.
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African Literature, Animism and Politics
This book considers ways in which inventions of Africa differ from inventions of the Orient. It identifies debates over the status of African thought as constituting one of the main preoccupations of a certain Africanist discourse.
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