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The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature

Series The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, Volume 2

Edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-10
0521832764

Hardback ISBN-10
0521594340

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521832762

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521832762

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
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

East African literature in English
by
Simon Gikandi

Anglophone literature of Central Africa
by
Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells

West African literature in English: beginnings to the mid-seventies
by
Dan S. Izevbaye

South African literature in English
by
David Attwell

African literature in French: sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period
by
Mildred Mortimer

North African literature in French
by
Patricia Geesey

Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean
by
Bénédicte Mauguière

African literature in Spanish
by
M'bare N'gom

African literature in Portuguese
by
Russell G. Hamilton

Popular literature in Africa
by
Ode S. Ogede

Caribbean literature in French: origins and development
by
Nick Nesbitt

Caribbean literature in Spanish
by
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Anglophone Caribbean literature
by
Elaine Savory

The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement
by
F. Abiola Irele

Postcolonial Caribbean identities
by
J. Michael Dash

African literature and post-independence disillusionment
by
Derek Wright

“Postcolonial” African and Caribbean literature
by
Adele King

Modernism and Postmodernism in African literature
by
Ato Quayson

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