The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature / edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi.

Author/creator Irele, Abiola
Other author Gikandi, Simon.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description2 volumes (xli, 906 pages) : maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
Literature--Black authors. --History and criticism.

Contents Africa and orality / Liz Gunner -- The folktale and its extensions / Kwesi Yankah -- Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Oaniyan -- Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa / Sabra Webber -- Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa / Lupenga Mphande -- African oral epics / Isidore Okpehwo -- The oral tradition in the African diaspora / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama / Keith Q. Warner -- Africa and writing / Alain Ricard -- Ethiopian literature / Teodros Kiros -- African literature in Arabic / Farida Abu-Haidar -- The Swahili literary tradition : an intercultural heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Africa and the European Renaissance / Silvie Kandé -- The literature of slavery and abolition / Moira Ferguson -- Discourses of empire / Robert Eric Livingston -- African-language literatures of southern Africa / Daniel P. Kuene -- Gikuyu literature : development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels / Ann Biersteker -- The emergence of written Hausa literature / Ousseina Alidou -- Literature in Yorùbá : poetry and prose; traveling theatre and modern drama / Karin Barber -- African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi -- The formative journals and institutions / Milton Krieger -- Literature in Afrikaans / Ampie Coetzee -- East African literature in English / Simon Gikandi -- Anglophone literature of Central Africa / Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells -- West African literature in English : beginnings to the mid-seventies / Dan Izevbaye -- South African literature in English / David Attwell -- African literature in French : Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period / Mildred Mortimer -- North African literature in French / Patricia Geesey -- Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean / Bénédicte Maguière -- African literature in Spanish / M'bre N'gom -- African literature in Portuguese / Russell Hamilton -- Popular literature in Africa / Ode S. Ogede -- Caribbean literature in French : origins and development / Nick Nesbitt -- Caribbean literature in Spanish / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Anglophone Caribbean literature / Elaine Savory -- The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement / F. Abiola Irele -- Postcolonial Caribbean identities / J. Michael Dash -- African literature and post-independence disillusionment / Derek Wright -- "Postcolonial" African and Caribbean literature / Adele King -- Modernism and postmodernism in African literature / Ato Quayson.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003046121
ISBN0521594340 (hardback)
ISBN9780521594349 (hardback)