A fresh, innovative, and powerful case for African literature on its own terms. Erudite, well executed, and politically committed....A magnificent and masterful critical reading. V. Y. Mudimbe, Duke University.
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Mineke Schipper is Professor of Intercultural Comparative Literature at the Amsterdam Free University and Leiden State University. She is the author of several books on African and comparative literature and has lived and taught in Africa.
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