Alt 9 Africa, America & the Caribbean: African Literature Today - A Review

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.

List of contents

Editorial - Eldred Jones
The African heritage & the Harlem Renaissance: A re-evaluation [Lloyd W. Brown]
Through the looking glass: African & Irish nationalist writing [C.L. Innes]
Iconoclasts both: Wole Soyinka & Leroi Jones [Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi]
The American background in Why Are We So Blest? [Robert Fraser]
De origen africano, soy cubano: African elements in the literature of Cuba [Femi Ojo-Ade]
Prophet of violence: Chester Himes [Willfried Feuser]
The peasant novel in Haiti [J.M.Dash]
Note on Senghor's Verse [Jeannette Kamara]
Reviews include Kadiatu Sesay on Ekwensi and Okpwewho, Maryse Condé on Sembene Ousmane's Xala and Eustace Palmer on Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road and Nuruddin Farah's Naked Needle

About the author

Eldred Durosimi Jones

Product details

• Authors: Eldred Durosimi Jones
• Assisted by: Eldred Jones (Editor), Eldred Durosimi Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.1978
• EAN: 9780852555095
• ISBN: 978-0-85255-509-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 154 g
• Series: African Literature Today (Hard
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Afrika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African