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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson Part I: Backgrounds 1. Alain Ricard, ¿Africa and writing¿ (2004) 2. Albert S. Gerard, ¿Sub-Saharan Africa's Literary History in a Nutshell¿ (1993) 3. Bernth Lindfors, ¿Politics, Culture, and Literary Form¿ (1979) 4. Russell G. Hamilton, ¿African Literature in Portuguese¿ (2004) 5. Anissa Talahite, ¿North African Writing¿ (1997) 6. Jonathan Ngate, ¿A Continent and its Literatures in French¿ (1988) 7. Simon Gikandi, ¿African Literature and the Colonial Factor¿ (2004) 8. V. Y. Mudimbe, ¿African Literature: Myth or Reality?¿ (2985) Part II: Orality, Literacy, and the Interface 9. Liz Gunner, ¿Africa and Orality¿ (2004) 10. Abiola Irele, ¿Orality, Literacy, and African Literature¿ (1989) 11. Isidore Okpewho, ¿Oral Literature and Modern African Literature¿ (1992) 12. Mary E. M. Kolawole, ¿Women¿s Oral Genres¿ (1997) 13. Harold Scheub, ¿The Oral Artist¿s Script¿ (2002) Part III: Writer, Writing, and Function 14. Chinua Achebe, "The Novelist as Teacher" (1965) 15. Chinua Achebe, ¿The Truth of Fiction¿ (1988) 16. Nadine Gordimer, ¿Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics¿ (1988) 17. Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Lecture (1988) 18. Njabulo S. Ndebele, ¿Redefining Relevance¿ (1994) 19. Albie Sachs, ¿Preparing ourselves for freedom¿ (1990) Part IV: Creativity in/and Adversarial Contexts 20. Wole Soyinka, ¿Twice Bitten: The Fate of Africa¿s Culture Producers¿ (2001) 21. Micere Githae Mugo, ¿Exile and Creativity: A Prolonged Writer¿s Block¿ (1997) 22. Jack Mapanje, ¿Containing Cockroaches¿ (1997) 23. Ngugi wa Thiong¿O, ¿Writing Against Neo-Colonialism¿ (1988) 24. J. M. Coetzee, ¿Into the Dark Chamber: The Writer and the South African State¿ (1986) 25. Nawal El Saadawi, ¿Dissidence and Creativity¿ (1996) 26. Zoe Wicomb, ¿Culture Beyond Color: A South African Dilemma¿ (1993) 27. Nurrudin Farah, ¿In Praise of Exile¿ (1990) 28. Dambudzo Marechera, ¿The African Writer¿s Exerience of European Literature¿ (1987) Part V: On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics: Negritude and Traditionalism 29. Leopold S. Senghor, "Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century" (1970) 30. Abiola Irele, ¿What is Negritude?¿ (1977) 31. Peter S. Thompson, ¿Negritude and a New Africa: An Update¿ (2002) 32. Chinweizu, ¿Prodigals, Come Home!¿ (1973) 33. Wole Soyinka, ¿Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition¿ (1975) 34. Adeleke Adeeko, ¿My Signifier is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African¿ (1998) 35. Kwame A. Appiah, ¿Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism¿ (1988) 36. Frantz Fanon, ¿On National Culture¿ (1963) 37. Paulin Hountondji, ¿True and False Pluralism¿ (1973) 38. Sony Labou Tansi, ¿ ¿An Open Letter to Africans¿ c/o The Punic One-Party State¿ (1990) 39. Benita Parry, ¿Resistance Theory/Theorizing Resistance: Or, Two Cheers for Nativism¿ (1994) Part VI: The Language of African Literature 40. Obiajuna Wali, ¿The Dead End of African Literature¿ (1963) 41. Ngugi wa Thiong¿O, ¿The Language of African Literature¿ (1986) 42. Assia Djebar, ¿Anamnesis in the Language of Writing¿ (1999) 43. Daniel P. Kunene, ¿African Language Literature: Tragedy and Hope¿ (1992) Part VII: On Genres 44. Emmanuel Obiechina, ¿Background to the West African Novel¿ (1975) 45. André Brink, ¿Languages of the Novel: A Lover¿s Reflections¿ (1998) 46. Neil Lazarus, ¿Realism and Naturalism¿¿ (1987) 47. Mineke Schipper, ¿Who Am I?...¿ (1989) 48. Tejumola Olaniyan, ¿Festivals, Ritual, and Drama in Africa¿ (2004) 49. Wole Soyinka, ¿The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy¿ (1973) 50. Tawfiq Al-Hakim, ¿Introduction to King Oedipus¿ (1949) 51. Kofi Anyidoho, ¿Poetry as Dramatic Performance¿ (1991) 52. Anne McClintock, ¿ ¿Azikwelwa¿ (We Will Not Ride): Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry¿ (1987) 53. Emmanuel Ngara, ¿Revolutionary Practice and Style in Lusophone Liberation Poetry¿ (1990) Part VIII: Theorizing the Criticism of African Literature 54. Eldred Jones, ¿Academic Problems and Critical Techniques¿ (1965) 55. Rand Bishop, ¿African Literature, Western Critics¿ (1988) 56. Kenneth Harrow, ¿A Formal Approach to African Literature¿ (1990) 57. Ambroise Kom, ¿African Absence, a Literature without a Voice¿ (1997) 58. Biodun Jeyifo, ¿The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory¿ (1990) 59. Christopher Miller, ¿Reading Through Western Eyes¿ (1990) 60. Olakunle George, ¿The Logic of Agency in African Literary Criticism¿ (2003) 61. Florence Stratton, ¿Exclusionary Practices in African Literary Criticism¿ (1994) Part IX: Marxism 62. Omafume Onoge, ¿Towards A Marxist Sociology of African Literature¿ (1986) 63. Ngugi wa Thiong¿O, ¿Writers in Politics: The Power of Words and the Words of Power¿ (1997) 64. Amilcar Cabral, ¿National Liberation and Culture¿ (1970) 65. Agostinho Neto, ¿Concerning National Culture¿ (1979) 66. Ayi Kwei Armah, ¿Masks and Marx¿ (1985) 67. Chidi Amuta, ¿Marxist Aesthetics: An Open-Ended Legacy¿ (1989) Part X: Feminism 68.Ama Ata Aidoo, ¿To Be an African Woman Writer¿an Overview and a Detail¿ (1988) 69. Nawal El Saadawi, ¿The Heroine in Arab Literature¿ (1980) 70. Flora Nwapa, ¿Women and Creative Writing in Africa¿ (1998) 71. Lauretta Ngcobo, ¿African Motherhood ¿ Myth and Reality¿ (1988) 72. Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, "Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context¿ (1994) 73. Buchi Emecheta, ¿Feminism with a small ¿f¿¿ (1988) 74. Yvonne Vera, ¿Writing Near the Bone¿ (1997) 75. Carole Boyce Davies, ¿Some Notes on African Feminism¿ (1986) 76. Obioma Nnaemeka, ¿Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology¿ (1994) 77. Uzo Esonwanne, ¿Enlightenment Epistemology and the Invention of Polygyny¿ (1997) 78. Ato Quayson, ¿Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Contradictory Orders of Modernity¿ (2000) Part XI: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postmodernism 79. Sunday O. Anozie, ¿Genetic Structuralism as a Critical Technique (Notes Toward a Sociological Theory of the African Novel)¿ (1971) 80. Abiola Irele, ¿In Praise of Alienation¿ (1987) 81. Biodun Jeyifo, ¿In the Wake of Colonialism and modernity¿ (2000) 82. Simon Gikandi, ¿Postructuralism and Postcolonial Discourse¿ (2004) 83. Robert J. C. Young, ¿Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria¿ (2001) 84. Anne McClintock, "The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Post-colonialism,¿" (1994) 85. Tejumola Olaniyan, ¿Postmodernity, Postcoloniality, and African Studies¿ (2003) 86. Ato Quayson, ¿Postcolonialism and Postmodernism¿ (2000) 87. Kwame A. Appiah, ¿Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?¿ (1991) 88. Lewis Nkosi, ¿Postmodernism and Black Writing in South Africa¿ (1998) 89. Karin Barber, ¿African Language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism¿ (1995) Part XII: Ecocriticism 90. William Slaymaker, ¿Ecoing the Other(s): The Call of Global Green and Black African Responses¿ (2001) 91. Byron Caminero-Santangelo, ¿Environmentalism and African Literature: Old Questions and New Directions¿ (2007) 92. Juliana Makuchi Nafah-Abbenyi, ¿Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women¿s Literature,¿ (1998) 93. Rob Nixon, ¿Environmentalism and Postcolonialism¿ (2005) Part XIII: Queer, Postcolonial 94. Chris Dunton, ¿'Wheyting Be Dat?': The Treatment of Homosexuality in African Literature¿ (1989) 95. Gaurav Desai, ¿Out in Africa¿ (1997) 96. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, ¿Toward a Lesbian Continuum? Or Reclaiming the Erotic¿ (1997) 97. Brenna Munro, ¿Queer Futures: The South African Coming-Out Novel¿ (2007) Index
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African literature -- History and criticism.