Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemein Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives, Book 163, (Hardcover)

<i>Reading Contemporary African Literature </i>brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres - poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

• Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemein Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives, Book 163, (Hardcover)
• Author: Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
• ISBN: 9789042036758
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Page Count: 444