African literature: an anthology of criticism and theory

pt. 1. Backgrounds. Africa and writing / Alain Ricard

Sub-Saharan Africa's literary history in a nutshell / Albert S. Gerard

Politics, culture, and literary form / Bernth Lindfors

African literature in Portuguese / Russell G. Hamilton

North African writing / Anissa Talahite

A continent and its literatures in French / Jonathan Ngate

African literature and the colonial factor / Simon Gikandi

African literature: myth or reality? / V. Y. Mudimbe

pt. 2. Orality, literacy, and the interface. Africa and orality/ Liz Gunner

Orality, literacy, and African literature / Abiola Irele

Oral literature and modern African literature / Isidore Okpewho

Women's oral genres / Mary E. Modupe Kolawole

The oral artist's script / Harold Schenb

pt. 3. Writer, writing, and function. The novelist as teacher: the truth of fiction / Chinua Achebe

The truth of fiction / Chinua Achebe

Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics / Nadine Gordimer

Nobel lecture / Naguib Mahfouz

Redefining relevance / Njabulo S. Ndebele

Preparing ourselves for freedom / Albie Sachs

pt. 4. Creativity in/and adversarial contexts. A voice that would not be silenced / Wole Soyinka

Exile and creativity: a prolonged writer's block / Micere Githae Mugo

Containing cockroaches (memories of incarceration reconstructed in exile) / Jack Mapanje

Writing against neo-Colonialism / Ngugi wa Thiong'O

The writer and responsibility / Breyten Breytenbach

Dissidence and creativity / Nawal El Saadawi

Culture beyond color: A South African dilemma / Zoe Wicomb

In praise of exile / Nurrudin Farah

The African writer's experience of European literature / D. Marechera

pt. 5. On nativism and the quest for indigenous aesthetics: negritude and traditionalism. Negritude: a humanism of the twentieth century / Leopold S. Senghor

What is negritude? / Abiola Irele

Negritude and a new Africa: an update / Peter S. Thompson

Prodigals, come home! / Chinweizu

Neo-tarzanism: the poetics of pseudo-tradition / Wole Soyinka

My signifier is more native than yours: issues in making a literature African / Adeleke Adeeko

Out of Africa: topologies of nativism / Kwame Anthony Appiah

On national culture / Frantz Fanon

True and false pluralism / Paulin Hountondji

"An open letter to Africans" c/o The Punic One-Party State / Sony Labou Tansi

Resistance theory/theorizing resistance or two cheers for nativism / Benita Parry

pt. 6. The language of African literature. The dead end of African literature? / Obiajunwa Wali

The language of African literature / Ngugi wa Thiong'O

Anamnesis in the language of writing / Assia Djebar

African-language literature: tragedy and hope / Daniel P. Kunene

pt. 7. On genres. Background to the West African novel / Emmanuel N. Obiechina

Languages of the novel: a lover's reflections / Andre Brink

Realism and naturalism in African fiction / Neil Lazarus

"Who am I?": fact and fiction in African first-person narrative/ Mineke Schipper

Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa / Tejumola Olaniyan

The fourth stage: through the mysteries of Ogun to the origin of Yoruba tragedy / Wole Soyinka

Introduction to "King Oedipus" / Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Poetry as dramatic performance / Kofi Anyidoho

"Azikwelwa" (we will not ride): politics and value in black South African poetry / Anne McClintock

Revolutionary practice and style in Lusophone liberation poetry / Emmanuel Ngara

pt. 8. Theorizing the criticism of African literature. Academic problems and critical techniques / Eldred D. Jones

African literature, western critics / Rand Bishop

A formal approach to African literature / Kenneth W. Harrow

African absence, a literature without a voice / Ambroise Kom

The nature of things: arrested decolonization and critical theory / Biodun Jeyifo

Reading through western eyes / Christopher L. Miller

Inherited mandates in African literary criticism: the intrinsic paradigm / Olakunle George

Exclusionary practices in African literary criticism / Florence Stratton

pt. 9. Marxism. Towards a Marxist sociology of African literature / Omafume F. Onoge

Writers in politics: the power of words and the words of power / Ngugi wa Thiong'O

National liberation and culture / Amilcar Cabral

Concerning national culture / Agostinho Neto

Masks and Marx: the Marxist ethos vis-a-vis African revolutionary theory and praxis / Ayi Kwei Armah

Marxist aesthetics: an open-ended legacy / Chidi Amuta

Pt. 10. Feminism. To be an African woman writer-an overview and a detail / Ama Ata Aidoo

The heroine in Arab literature / Nawal El Saadawi

Women and creative writing in Africa / Flora Nwapa

African motherhood-Myth and reality / Lauretta Ngcobo

Stiwanism: feminism in an African context / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie

Feminism with a small "f"! / Buchi Emecheta

Writing near the bone / Yvonne Vera

Some notes on African feminism / Carole Boyce Davies

Bringing African women into the classroom: rethinking pedagogy and epistemology / Obioma Nnaemeka

Enlightenment epistemology and the invention of polygyny / Uzo Esonwanne

Feminism, postcolonialism and the contradictory orders of modernity / Ato Quayson

pt. 11. Structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. Genetic structuralism as a critical technique (notes toward a sociological theory of the African novel) / Sunday O. Anozie

In praise of alienation / Abiola Irele

In the wake of colonialism and modernity / Biodun Jeyifo

Poststructuralism and postcolonial discourse / Simon Gikandi

Subjectivity and history: derrida in Algeria / Robert J. C. Young

The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term "post-colonialism" / Anne McClintock

Postmodernity, postcoloniality, and African studies / Tejumola Olaniyan

Postcolonialism and postmodernism / Ato Quayson

Is the post- in postmodernism the post- in postcolonial? / Kwame Anthony Appiah

Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa / Lewis Nkosi

African language literature and postcolonial criticism / Karin Barber

pt. 12. Ecocriticism. Ecoing the other(s): the call of global green and black African responses / William Slaymaker

Different shades of green: ecocriticism and African literature / Byron Caminero-Santangelo

Ecological postcolonialism in African women's literature / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Environmentalism and postcolonialism / Rob Nixon

pt. 13. Queer, postcolonial. "Wheyting be dat?": the treatment of homosexuality in African literature / Chris Dunton

Out in Africa / Gaurav Desai

Toward a lesbian continuum? Or reclaiming the erotic / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Queer futures: The coming-out novel in South Africa / Brenna Munro.