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World Literatures in English: Africa - Selected Works Contents: Literary History & Criticism | Collections | Prose, Poetry & Drama - Representative Authors Included here are seminal and recent works. Most of the materials listed may be used outside the library. Be sure to consult the Western Libraries Online Catalog for location and availability. Literary History & Criticism
Balogun, Fidelis Odun. Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story : An
Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics. New York : Greenwood, 1991.
Bamgbose, Ayo, Ayo Banjo and Andrew Thomas, eds. New Englishes: A West African Perspective. Trenton, NJ :
Africa World P, 1997.
Barthold, Bonnie J. Black Time : Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.
New Haven : Yale U P, 1981.
Beier, Ulli. Introduction to African Literature; an Anthology of Critical Writing from Black Orpheus.
Evanston : Northwestern U P, 1967.
Booker, M. Keith. The African Novel in English : An Introduction. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1998.
Carretta, Vincent and Philip Gould, eds. Genius in Bondage : Literature of the Early Black Atlantic.
Lexington : U P of Kentucky, 2001.
Cook, David and Michael Okenimkpe. Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o : An Exploration of
His Writing. 2nd ed.
Oxford : J. Currey, 1997.
Coundouriotis, Eleni. Claiming History : Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel. New York :
Columbia U P, 1999.
Daniels, Patsy J. The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor : A
Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa, and America.
New York : Routledge, 2001.
Etherton, Michael. The Development of African Drama. London : Hutchison U Library for Africa, 1982.
Farred, Grant. Midfielder's Moment : Coloured Literature and Culture in
Contemporary South Africa. Boulder : Westview, 2000.
Fox, Robert Elliot. Masters of the Drum : Black Lit/oratures across the Continuum.
Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1995.
Gagiano, Annie. Achebe, Head, Marechera : On Power and Change in Africa. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2000.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Black Literature and Literary Theory.
New York : Methuen, 1984.
George, Olakunle. Relocating agency : modernity and African letters.
Albany : State U of New York P, 2003.
Gikandi, Simon. Reading Chinua Achebe : Language & Ideology in Fiction.
London : Heinemann, 1991.
Griffiths, Gareth. A Double Exile : African and West Indian Writing between Two Cultures.
London : Boyars, 1978.
Harrow, Kenneth W., ed. Thresholds of Change in African Literature: The Emergence of a Tradition.
London : J. Currey, 1994.
Hay, Margaret Jean, ed. African Novels in the Classroom. Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2000.
Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity : Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of
India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany : State U of New York P, 2000.
Holloway, Karla F. C. Moorings & Metaphors : Figures of Culture and Gender in Black
Women's Literature. New Brunswick : Rutgers U P, 1992.
Innes, C. L. Chinua Achebe. Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 1990.
Irele, F. Abiola. The African Imagination : Literature in Africa & the Black Diaspora.
Oxford : Oxford U P, 2001.
James, Adeola, ed. In Their Own Voices: African Women Writers Talk. London : J. Currey, 1990.
Jones, Eldred Durosimi, ed. Exile & African Literature : A Review. Trenton, NJ : Africa World, 2000.
Julien, Eileen. African Novels and the Question of Orality. Bloomington : Indiana U P, 1992.
Kirpal, Viney. The Third World Novel of Expatriation: A Study of Emigre Fiction by Indian, West African, and
Caribbean Writers. New Dehli: Sterling, 1989.
Khosravi, Cambia A. Chinua Achebe : the importance of stories. [videorecording]
New York : Cinema Guild, 1996.
Lange, Margreet de. The Muzzled Muse : Literature and Censorship in South Africa.
Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 1997.
Larson, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer. London : Zed, 2001.
Lindfors, Bernth. The Blind Men and the Elephant and Other Essays in Biographical Criticism.
Trenton, NJ : Africa World, 1999.
Lindfors, Bernth, ed. Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures.
Washington : Three Continents, 1976.
Loflin, Christine. African Horizons : The Landscapes of African Fiction. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1998.
Makward, Edris, Thelma Ravell-Pinto and Aliko Songolo, eds. The Growth of African Literature :
Twenty-five Years after Dakar and Fourah Bay. Trenton, NJ : Africa World, 1998.
Nasta, Susheila, ed. Motherlands: Black Women's Writing from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia.
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers UP, 1992.
Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney. Using the Master's Tools : Resistance and the
Literature of the
African and South-Asian Diasporas. New York : St. Martin's, 2000.
New, William H. Among Worlds : An Introduction to Modern Commonwealth and South
African Fiction. Erin, Ont. : Press Porcepic, 1975.
Newell, Stephanie. Ghanaian Popular Fiction : "Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life"
& Other Tales. Oxford : J. Currey, 2000.
Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o. Decolonising the Mind : The Politics of Language in African Literature.
London : J. Currey, 1986.
Obiechina, Emmanuel N. An African Popular Literature: A Study of Onitsha Market Pamphlets.
Cambridge : U P, 1973.
Olaniyan, Tejumola. Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance : The Invention of Cultural
Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama. New York : Oxford U P, 1995.
Omotoso, Kole. Achebe or Soyinka? : A Study in Contrasts. London : Hans Zell, 1996.
Osa, Osayimwense. African Children's and Youth Literature. New York : Twayne, 1995.
Powell, Kevin, ed. Step into a World : A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature.
New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Sandiford, Keith Albert. Measuring the Moment : Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-century
Afro-English Writing. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna U P, 1988.
Sicherman, Carol. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the Making of a Rebel : A Sourcebook in Kenyan
Literature and Resistance. London : H. Zell, 1990.
Smith, Rowland, ed. Exile and Tradition : Studies in African and Caribbean Literature.
New York : Africana, 1976.
Strathern, Oona. Traveller's Literary Companion to Africa. Brighton, UK : In Print, 1994.
Stratton, Florence. Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender. London : Routledge, 1994.
Thomas, Helen. Romanticism and Slave Narratives : Transatlantic Testimonies.
Cambridge : Cambridge U P, 2000.
Wehrs, Donald R. African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values. Gainesville : U P of Florida, 2001.
Wilentz, Gay Alden. Binding Cultures : Black Women Writers in Africa and the
Diaspora. Bloomington :
Indiana U P, 1992.
Wilkinson, Jane, ed. Talking with African Writers: Interviews with African Poets, Playwrights & Novelists.
London : J. Currey, 1992.
Wole Soyinka. Institute of Contemporary Arts. Writers in Conversation Series. Videocassette. ICA, 1984.
Woodward, Helena. African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason.
Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1999.
Wright, Derek. New Directions in African Fiction. New York : Twayne, 1997.
Yousaf, Nahem. Alex La Guma : Politics and Resistance. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2001.
Collections, with Introductory Essays
Angoff, Charles and John Povey, eds. African Writing Today: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda,
Zambia. New York : Manyland, 1969.
Balseiro, ed. Running Towards Us : New Writing from South Africa. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2000.
Beier, Ulli. Political Spider; an Anthology of Stories from Black
Orpheus. New York : Africana, 1969.
Butler, Guy and Chris Mann, eds. A New Book of South African Verse in English.
Cape Town : Oxford U P, 1979.
Figueroa, John J., ed. An Anthology of African and Caribbean Writing in English.
London : Heinemann Educational Books in association with the Open University, 1982.
Henderson, Gwyneth, ed. African Theatre; Eight Prize-winning Plays for Radio. London : Heinemann, 1973.
Hughes, Langston. An African Treasury : Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems, by Black
Africans. New York : Crown, 1960.
Marechera, Dambudzo. The Black Insider. Trenton, NJ : Africa World, 1999.
Mezu, S. Okechukwu, comp. Igbo Market Literature. Buffalo : Black Academy P, 1972.
Ngara, Emmanuel, ed. New Writing from Southern Africa : Authors Who have Become Prominent
Since 1980. London : James Currey, 1996.
Obiechina, Emmanuel N., ed. Onitsha Market Literature. New York : Africana, 1972.
Ogali, Ogali A. Veronica, My Daughter, and other Onitsha Market Plays and Stories.
eds. Reinhard W. Sander and Peter K. Ayers. Washington : Three Continents, 1980.
Plumpp, Sterling, ed. Somehow We Survive : An Anthology of South African Writing.
New York : Thunder's Mouth, 1982.
Powell, Kevin, ed. Step into a World : A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature.
New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Rive, Richard, ed. Modern African Prose; an Anthology.
London : Heinemann Educational, 1964.
Rive, Richard. Quartet; New Voices from South Africa: Alex La Guna, James Matthews,
Richard Rive, Alf Wannenburgh. London : Heinemann Educational, 1963.
Tibble, Anne Northgrave, ed. African-English Literature; a Short Survey and Anthology of Prose
and Poetry up to 1965. New York : October House, 1965.
Prose, Poetry & Drama
Contents:
18th Century |
19th & Early 20th Centuries | 1950 & Beyond
18th Century
Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745. Equiano's Travels; the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Abridged and edited by Paul Edwards. New York : Praeger, 1967.
19th & Early 20th Centuries
Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912. Black Spokesman; Selected Published Writings of Edward Wilmot
Blyden. Ed. Hollis R. Lynch. New York : Humanities, 1971.
Claridge, William Walton. A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, from the Earliest Times to
the Commencement of the Twentieth Century. 2nd ed. London : [John Murray, 1915] F. Cass, 1964.
Horton, James Africanus Beale. Letters on the political condition of the Gold Coast, since the
exchange of territory between the English and Dutch governments, on January 1,
1868 together with a short account of the Ashantee War, 1862-4, and the Awoonah
War, 1866. 2nd ed. London : F. Cass, 1970.
1950 and Beyond
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