This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.
Author(s): Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland
Edition: 2.
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 321
City: New York/London
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
General Editors' Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I Writing and History: A Survey......Page 24
1 North African writing......Page 26
2 West African writing......Page 44
3 East and Central African writing......Page 59
Part ll Issues and Problems......Page 80
4 What is African literature?: ethnography and criticism......Page 82
5 Fiction as an historicising form in modern South Africa......Page 100
6 Empires of the imagination: Rider Haggard, popular fiction and Africa......Page 116
7 Stars in the moral universe: writing and resistance to colonialism......Page 135
8 Writing, literacy and history in Africa......Page 152
9 Oral tradition as history......Page 172
10 Popular writing in Africa......Page 187
11 African writing and gender......Page 206
12 The changing fortunes of the writer in Africa?......Page 229
13 The press in Africa: expression and repression......Page 247
14 Post-colonialism and language......Page 259
Part lll Selected Documents......Page 278
1 Countering colonial and neo-colonial hegemony......Page 280
2 Writing and gender......Page 283
3 The role of the writer......Page 291
4 The language question......Page 294
Select Bibliography......Page 300
Index......Page 311
