Writing and Africa (Crosscurrents) - Hardcover

Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson; Hyland, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138439959 ISBN 13: 9781138439955

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Booth is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham.
Paul Hyland is Head of the School of Historical and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138439959
• ISBN 13: 9781138439955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1