Writing And Africa

This volume reflects a broadening area of English Studies that takes in nonwestern literatures and places more emphasis on the contexts and broadernotions of wr... » 

This volume reflects a broadening area of English Studies that takes in nonwestern literatures and places more emphasis on the contexts and broadernotions of writing. It discusses writing from and about Africa and touches onstudies in black writing colonialism and imperialism and cultural developmentin the Third World. The collection begins by providing a historicalintroduction to the main regional traditions and then builds on this todiscuss issues such as oral traditions the significance of literature as aWestern import representations of Africa in Western writing African writingagainst colonialism popular writing and the representation of women. «