Alt 1-4: African Literature Today - A Journal of Explanatory Criticism

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 Note to ALT - Eldred Jones
The palm oil with which Achebe's words are eaten [Bernth Lindfors]
Okigbo understood: A study of two poems [O.R. Dathorne]
Cultural nationalism in modern African creative writing [E.N. Obeichina]
'Two hands a man has': The poetry of J.P. Clark [John Povey]
Reviews of Aimé Césaire, James Ngugi, Olaudah Equiano, Elechi Amadi & Flora Nwapa; Bibliography [Hans Zell]
Editorial Note to ALT 2 [Eldred D. Jones]
James Ngugi as novelist [Ime Ikiddeh]
Camara Laye: Idealist & mystic [A.C. Brench]
Africa in Negro American poetry to 1929 [Michael Furay]
Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters: reading notes [Eldred D. Jones]
Reviews of David Rubadiri, Legson Kayira & Aimé Césaire; Letters; Bibliography [Hans Zell]
Editorial Note to ALT 3 [Eldred D. Jones]
Cyprian Ekwensi: An African popular novelist [Bernth Lindfors]
The problem of language in African creative writing [B.I. Chukwukere]
Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala: An interpretation [Eustace Palmer]
Reviews of Ferdinand Oyono, John Munonye, Ayi Kwei Armah, Thérèse Baratte; Bibliography [Hans Zell]
Editorial Note to ALT 4 [Eldred D. Jones]
The traditional content of the plays of Wole Soyinka [Oyin Ogunba]
Kwesi Brew: The poetry of statement & situation [Edwin Thumboo]
An African sentimentalist: Camara Laye's The African Child [Paul Edwards & Kenneth Ramchand]
Reviews of Yambo Ouologuem, Legson Kayira & Wole Soyinka; Bibliography [Hans Zell]

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: 31.01.1968
• EAN: 9780852555064
• ISBN: 978-0-85255-506-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: African Literature Today (Hard
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Afrika, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African