Alt 11 Myth & History: African Literature Today

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
Rethinking myth [Isidore Okpewho]
The African historical novel & the way forward [Hugh Webb]
Myth, history & the poetry of Kofi Awoonor [Thomas R. Knipp]
The Middle Passage in African literature: Wole Soyinka, Yambo Ouologuem, Ayi Kewi Armah [Lemuel A. Johnson]
Armah's histories [Bernth Lindfors]
'As grasshoppers to wanton boys': the role of the gods in the novels of Elechi Amadi [Niyi Osundare]
The essential unity of Soyinka's The Interpreters & Season of Anomy
The inward journey of the palm-wine drinkard [John Coates]
Myth & ritual in Arrow of God [Bu-Buakei Jabbi]
Sunset at Dawn: A Biafran on the Nigerian civil war [Alex C. Johnson]
Glissant's prophetic vision of the past [Juris Silenieks]
African oral tradtion - criticism as a performance: A ritual [Solomon O. Iyasere]
African adaptations of Greek tragedies [E.J. Asgill]
The relevance of African cosmological systems to African literature today [Mazisi Kunene]
Reviews include Wole Soyinka's The Real Life of Domingos Xavier

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: 31.01.1980
• EAN: 9781847011220
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-122-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: African Literature Today (Hard
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Afrika, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African