Marjorie Jones

Eldred D. Jones

"Professor Eldred Jones says 'African literature continues to be intensely political and seems destined to remain so for some time. The writers are in the thick of the fight for the true liberation of their countries, a position which is still fraught with dangers.' He believes that 'it is possible to distinguish in the literatures of most countries pre-independence from post-independence literature but only as trends rather than as sudden dramatic breaks.' The articles in this collection point up: The increasing importance of women writers; that war produces a significant change in focus; [and] the growth of literature of protest against the misuse of independence. Professor Jones says 'South African writers will now have to emerge from the dominating theme of apartheid into close examination of humanity in a "free" society ... The military phenomenon has provided Nigerian writers with a succession of sub-periods int heir literary history.'"--Publisher's description.

A Review

New Trends & Generations in African Literature

Christopher Fyfe

A Symposium

Freetown

Wole Soyinka

Includes sections on Wole Soyinka's autobiographical work Ake, some of his plays, some collections of poetry and of two of his novels. North America: Heinemann

The Writing of Wole Soyinka

Eustace Palmer

Anyone with an interest in written or oral literature in Africa would do well to consult Oral & Written Poetry in African Literature Today.

Oral & Written Poetry in African Literature Today

This is an authoritive study of Nobel Prize winning writer Wole Soyinka.

Simon Gikandi

James Morel Gibbs

"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description

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