Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locat

The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to

From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theo

Amadi’s masterpiece of African literature captures village life and practices not yet touched by the white man. The novel’s beautiful, hardworking protagoni