The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

Book Overview

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.

Calling it a major crisis in African literary criticism, Mukoma Wa Ngugi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472073680
• ISBN13: 9780472073689
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"