In The African Novel in English Keith Booker uses eight African novels to illustrate the scopes, varieties and the general aesthetic, cultural, and political co

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

What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses

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