Something Old, Something New

For many years studies of African literature have been concerned with introducing African authors to African and non-African audiences, generalizing about all African literatures, and criticizing African literatures, primarily those written in European languages. The five books reviewed here offer, or claim to offer, new information about African literatures or new perspectives for studying and criticizing African literatures. Yet all of them continue established traditions in writing about African literatures

Sociology · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies