Eldred Durosimi Jones

Marjorie Jones

The experience of childhood as examined in the works of African writers.

A Review

Childhood in African Literature

Eustace Palmer

Eldred D. Jones

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

Cattle rustling. Guns. Murder. Kendra Williams has been the sole caretaker of her four younger siblings since their parents were killed in an alcohol-related airplane crash when she was only twenty years old. She has worked her entire adult life, sacrificing her dreams and her chance at love, to keep her family together and to keep their family cattle ranch safe for future generations. Someone doesn't want that to happen. Michelle Loving has made a successful career out of telling the American public what to think and what they should care about. She is hired to create an image of historical significance for the century-old cattle ranch, but finds herself in over her head. Not only is someone gunning for the ranch, but when it comes to loving the rustic, controlling, beautiful woman in charge of the Heartland, Michelle is shooting in the dark. Two women... One impossible task... A love that will not be silent. ********************************************* Loving the Heartland by Marjorie Jones is a TOP 10 Best Seller in Lesbian Romance and Lesbian Fiction in the US, UK and achieved the #1 Best Seller top spot for lesbian romance in Australia. Marjorie Jones lives in Utah and writes both straight and LGBT romances. Her first LesLit novel, Gods of Summer, is scheduled to be released in February 2016.

Loving the Heartland-Lesbian Romance Contemporary Romance Novel

Lesbian Romance-Loving the Heartland - Lesbian Cowgirl Contemporary Romance Novel

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

"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.

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