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The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature

Series The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, Volume 1

Edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-10
0521594340

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521832755

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521832755

Overview

This history offers new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature. It provides the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history. Chapters address the literature itself, the practices and conditions of its composition, and its complex relationship with African social and geopolitical history. The book provides an account of the entire body of productions that can be considered to comprise the field of African literature, defined both by imaginative expression in Africa itself and the black diaspora. The book accounts for the specific historical and cultural context in which this expression has been manifested in African and the Caribbean: the formal particularities of the literary corpus, both oral and written, that can be ascribed to the two areas, and the diversity of material and texts covered by the representative works. This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students.

For more details of the
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The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Africa and orality
by
Liz Gunner

The folktale and its extensions
by
Kwesi Yankah

Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa
by
Tejumola Olaniyan

Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa
by
Sabra Webber

Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa
by
Lupenga Mphande

African oral epics
by
Isidore Okpewho

The oral tradition in the African diaspora
by
Maureen Warner-Lewis

Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama
by
Keith Q. Warner

Africa and writing
by
Alain Ricard

Ethiopian literature
by
Teodros Kiros

African literature in Arabic
by
Farida Abu-Haidar

The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage
by
Alamin M. Mazrui

Africa and the European Renaissance
by
Sylvie Kandé

The literature of slavery and abolition
by
Moira Ferguson

Discourses of empire
by
Robert Eric Livingston

African-language literatures of southern Africa
by
Daniel P. Kunene

Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels
by
Ann Biersteker

The emergence of written Hausa literature
by
Ousseina Alidou

Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama
by
Karin Barber

African literature and the colonial factor
by
Simon Gikandi

The formative journals and institutions
by
Milton Krieger

Literature in Afrikaans
by
Ampie Coetzee

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