Postcolonial African Writers

A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Siga Fatima Jagne, Pushpa Naidu Parekh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136593970
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

INDEX

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Abrahams, Cecil, 215

Achebe, Chinua, xvi, xxiv, 8, 16, 19–31, 37, 42, 50–51, 106, 158, 223, 235, 306–8, 330–31, 339, 341, 343, 356, 359–63, 365, 370, 373, 408, 451, 474–75;

Anthills of the Savannah, xvi, 25;

Arrow of God, 23–24;

Beware, Soul Brother, 25;

Chike and the River, 27;

Don’t Let Him Die, 362;

The Drum, 27;

The Flute, 27;

Girls at War and Other Stories, 26;

Hopes and Impediments,26, 477;

A Man of the People, xvi, 24–25, 223;

Morning Yet on Creation Day, 19–21, 23, 26, 28, 51;

No Longer at Ease, 23, 235;

“The Novelist as Teacher,” 20;

Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, 20;

Things Fall Apart, 19–24, 27–28, 339, 365;

The Trouble with Nigeria, 26;

Uwa ndi Igbo: A Journal of Igbo Life and Culture, 20

Acholonu, Catherine, 346, 350

Activism, 91, 207, 263–64, 271, 308, 311, 348, 375, 413–14, 418, 443. See also Politics, activism

Acts: British Imperial Land Act, 318;

Immorality Act, xxviii, 185, 338, 394;

Suppression of Communism Act, 85. See also Colonial, laws

African: aesthetics, 54–56, 89–90, 165, 271–72, 281, 357–58, 366–69, 371;

childhood, 27, 38, 217, 225, 228, 255, 262–64, 275–81, 283–88, 309, 322, 340, 364, 425, 443;

countries, xiii, 24, 191, 396, 400–402, 404, 408–10, 413, 425–49, 434;

culture and experience, x, xxiii, 23–25, 27, 32, 34, 46, 41, 42, 50, 53–55, 60, 107–8, 113, 115, 118, 120, 125–26, 131–...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chinua Achebe
• Ama Ata Aidoo
• Zaynab Alkali
• Ayi Kwei Armah
• Kofi Awoonor
• Mariama Bâ
• Calixthe Beyala
• Dennis Vincent Frederick Brutus (John Bruin)
• Driss Chraïbi
• J. P. Clark-Bekederemo
• Mia Couto
• Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Nafissatou Diallo
• David Mandessi Diop
• Assia Djebar
• Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala
• Buchi Emecheta
• Femi Euba
• Aminata Sow Fall
• Nuruddin Farah
• Athol Fugard
• Nadine Gordimer
• Mafika Gwala
• Bessie Head
• Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
• Francis Imbuga
• Festus Ikhuoria Ojeaga Iyayi
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
• Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
• Ungulani Bâ Ka Khosa
• Ellen Kuzwayo
• Alex La Guma
• Camara Laye
• Doris Lessing
• Muthoni Likimani
• Dambudzo Marechera
• Micere M. Githae Mugo
• Peter Nazareth
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
• Lewis Nkosi
• Flora Nwapa
• Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
• Gabriel Okara
• Christopher Ifeanyichukwu Okigbo
• Ben Okri
• Femi Osofisan
• Ferdinand Oyono
• Essop Patel
• Alan Paton
• Okot p’Bitek
• Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
• Tijan Sallah
• Olive Schreiner
• Leïla Sebbar
• Léopold Sédar Senghor
• Wole Soyinka
• Efua Theodora Sutherland
• Sony Labou Tansi
• Mositi Torontle
• Amos Tutuola
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors