African Literature An Anthology of Criticism

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 locate Covers all genres and critical schools Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism

Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor in English at the University of Wisconsin. His publications include: Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama (1995), Arrest the Music: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics (2004), and he is coeditor of African Drama and Performance (2004).

Ato Quayson is Professor in English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies, University of Toronto. His previous publications include Strategic Transformation in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (2000), Relocating Postcolonialism (Blackwell, 2002) and Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Backgrounds
Africa and Writing
Sub-Saharan Africa's Literary History in a Nutshell
Politics, Culture, and Literary Form
African Literature in Portuguese
North African Writing
A Continent and its Literatures in French
African Literature and the Colonial Factor
African Literature: Myth or Reality?
Orality, Literacy, and the Interface
Africa and Orality
Orality, Literacy, and African Literature
Oral Literature and Modern African Literature
Women's Oral Genres
The Oral Artist's Script
Writer, Writing, and Function
The Novelist as Teacher
The Truth of Fiction
Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics
Nobel Lecture
Redefining Relevance
Preparing Ourselves for Freedom
Creativity in/and Adversarial Contexts
A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer's Block
Containing Cockroaches (Memories of Incarceration Reconstructed in Exile)
Writing Against Neo-Colonialism
The Writer and Responsibility
Dissidence and Creativity
Culture Beyond Color? A South African Dilemma
In Praise of Exile
The African Writer's Experience of European Literature
On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics: Negritude and Traditionalism
Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century
What is N_gritude?
Negritude and a New Africa: An Update
Prodigals, Come Home!
Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition
My Signifier is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African: Ad_l_k+ Ad_+ko
Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism
On National Culture
True and False Pluralism
"An Open Letter to Africans" c/o The Punic One-Party State
Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance or Two Cheers for Nativism
The Language of African Literature
The Dead End of African Literature
The Language of African Literature
Anamnesis in the Language of Writing
African-Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope
On Genres
Background to the West African Novel
Languages of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections
Realism and Naturalism in African Fiction
"Who Am I?": Fact and Fiction in African First-Person Narrative
Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa
The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy
Introduction to King Oedipus
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