African Literatures in English

'Clearly here is a multi-purpose volume where in-depth discussions to the highest critical standards of major literacy works are found besides and intimately integrated into an overall agenda of great historical sophistication and cultural sensitivity........Griffiths' rendering of this area of African writing in English has undoubtedly set a standard for a long time to come.'Klaus Stierstorfer, University of Desseldorf, Germany.'..a thorough overview of the field which does far more, and more carefully and convincingly, than is usual in an introductory enterprise'.Stephanie Jones, SOAS, Interventions, Vol 4 (1).

• Preface.  Patronage and the development of East and West African English writing.  1. 18th and 19th Century Slave Narratives of the Black Diaspora  2. 19th and Early 20th Century Histories, Travel Accounts, Political Writing and the Beginnings of Fiction  3. 19th and 20th Century Missionary-Writing Testements and Writings by Africans Produced Under Missionary Auspices and Control  4. 20th Century Secular Patronage: Literature, Education and Control5. 20th Century Popular Culture and English Writing in Africa  Dominant themes and Patterns in East and West African Writing in English  6. Alternatives: Contrasting Themes and Patterns in Post-Independence Africa Writing in English7. Self-Criticism and Post-Independence Disillusion  8. Opposition, Resistance and Decolonisation  9. Internal Discord.  Alternative Voices in East and West African English Writing.  10. Minority Voices: English Writing in Non-Anglophone East and West African Countries  11. Women's Voices: Gendered Pasts, Liberated Futures  12. New Transcultural Voices in East and West African Writing  References.  Chronology of Literary and Historical EventsGeneral Bibliography  Individual Authors: Notes on Biography, Works and Criticism