The Ordeal of the African Writer

By Charles R. Larson

Book Overview

This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get their work published, let alone to support themselves financially from their writing. Charles R. Larson combines writers' own testimony, pen portraits of their lives, and factual investigation to explore the full dimensions of this problem.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856499316
• ISBN13: 9781856499316
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"