The present book makes a significant contribution to the fast-emerging area of contemporary black American women’s writing. A number of black women writers, including Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, have achieved eminence in the domain of fiction. This study highlights the......
All African writing is at once a literary piece, a social protest and medium of political re-assertion. All the contributors to the volume share the same objective while examining the works of writers like Achebe, Ngugi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ben Okri and Gabriel Okara. The......
The volume represents first the poets, secondly the playwrights, and thirdly all regions of Africa and the diaspora. Particular emphasis is placed on Nigerian gender poetry, Yoruba Theatre, Eastern African Traditionalism, African-American movement and African-Canadian......
Among African writers in English, Ayi Kwei Armah ranks with the major voices. Unlike his counterparts Achebe, Soyinka, Fanon, Senghor, Armah’s work is characterised by an ironic stance necessary for a great writer. His evocation of Ghananian society has a poignancy hardly noticed......
Chinua Achebe, the doyen of African writing, is the major exponent of modern African novel. Beginning with the advent of the European power, his novels span a series of political crises that beset Nigeria, the collapse of the native power structures in Things Fall Apart, total......
Culture-clash is the most predominant theme of the contemporary African fiction. hig-hlighting this aspect, the present book takes up for detailed study the novels of T.M. Aluko and Cyprian Ekwensi, and to some extent the novels of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka as part of the......
Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate, has written the famous novel My Son’s Story which offers a graphic picture of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The book offers a detailed analysis of the novel and opens up rich insights into Gordimer’s mind and art.
The Trial of Dedan Kimathy is an important African protest play. It is based on historical facts and depicts how Kenya won its inde-pendence through the sacrifices of heroes like Dedan Kimathy. The present book offers a comprehensive study of the play, covering thematic and......
The book is an anthology of critical studies on the novels of Chinua Achebe. It provides a critical survey of Achebe’s fiction, especially his social obligations as a writer.
The book is a major attempt at a compara-tive critical assessment of the two leading African novelists, Achebe and Ngugi, from the point of view of their commitment to African ethos and values in the context of today. It examines in detail Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Arrow......
