Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr (July 1, 2002) Language : English ISBN-10 : 0865439656 ISBN-13 : 978-0865439658

In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the showmen,...

Historical documentation becomes art when it is bold enough to transcend the linearity of time and place by an interacting subject. Bernth Lindfors is such a troubling and participating voice and narrator.

This book contains half a dozen essays on writings by Wole Soyinka composed prior to publication of his first books in 1963

This book focuses on the first works produced by three talented West Africans who felt an urge to express themselves in print. These

Among the most powerful forces driving contemporary literary movements in anglophone Africa have been the indigenous media that provided aspiring authors with opportunities to express themselves

This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature

What is the written word that captivates the masses of African people? What are the stories and essays that most Africans read? Scholars usually pay little attention to the popular literature of Africa

The essays in this collection are attempts to arrive at a few new truths about writers and their writings based on novel evidence that has been either found by chance or subjected to unusual forms of analysis.