Writing and Africa

List of contents

Notes on contributors 1. Introduction: Writing and Africa Part One: Writing and History: A survey 2. North African writing 3. West African writing 4. Eastern and Central African writing Part Two: Issues and Problems 5. What is African Literature? Ethnography and Criticism 6. Fiction as an historicising form in modern South Africa 7. Empires of Imagination: Rider Haggard, popular fiction and Africa 8. Stars in the moral universe: Writing and resistance to colonialism 9. Writing, literacy and history in Africa 10. Oral traditions as history 11. Popular writing in Africa 12. African writing and gender 13. The changing fortunes of the writer in Africa? 14. The Press: Expression and repression 15. Post-Colonialism and langauge Documents and Bibliography Index

About the author

Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland

Summary

A volume that reflects a broadening area of English Studies that takes in non-western literatures and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of "writing". It discusses writing from and about Africa and also touches on studies in black writing.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hyland, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson Hyland Msiska, Msiska Mpalive-Hangson
• Assisted by: Paul Hyland (Editor), Mpalive-Hangson Msiska (Editor), J B Bullen (Editor of the series), Paul Hyland (Editor of the series), Neil Sammells (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138439955
• ISBN: 978-1-138-43995-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Crosscurrents
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism