The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi

Bibliography: pages 849-852-Includes index

Africa and orality / Liz Gunner -- The folktale and its extensions / Kwesi Yankah -- Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Oaniyan -- Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / Sabra Webber -- Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / Lupenga Mphande -- African oral epics / Isidore Okpehwo -- The oral tradition in the African diaspora / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / Keith Q. Warner -- Africa and writing / Alain Ricard -- Ethiopian literature / Teodros Kiros -- African literature in Arabic / Farida Abu-Haidar -- The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Africa and the European Renaissance / Silvie Kand e -- The literature of slavery and abolition / Moira Ferguson -- Discourses of empire / Robert Eric Livingston -- African-language literatures of southern Africa / Daniel P. Kuene -- Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ng ug i's later novels / Ann Biersteker -- The emergence of written Hausa literature / Ousseina Alidou -- Literature in Yor ub a : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama / Karin Barber -- African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi -- The formative journals and institutions / Milton Krieger -- Literature in Afrikaans / Ampie Coetzee -- East African literature in English / Simon Gikandi -- Anglophone literature of Central Africa / Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells -- West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies / Dan Izevbaye -- South African literature in English / David Attwell -- African literature in French : Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period / Mildred Mortimer -- North African literature in French / Patricia Geesey -- Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean / B en edicte Magui ere -- African literature in Spanish / M'bre N'gom -- African literature in Portuguese / Russell Hamilton -- Popular literature in Africa / Ode S. Ogede -- Caribbean literature in French : origins and development / Nick Nesbitt -- Caribbean literature in Spanish / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Anglophone Caribbean literature / Elaine Savory -- The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement / F. Abiola Irele -- Postcolonial Caribbean identities / J. Michael Dash -- African literature and post-independence disillusionment / Derek Wright -- "Postcolonial" African and Caribbean literature / Adele King -- Modernism and postmodernism in African literature / Ato Quayson.

Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.

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