Cambridge Companion to the African Novel » (New Edition)

F. Abiola Irele is Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Romance languages at Harvard University.

An overview of the key novels and novelists of the continent, covering multiple cultures and languages.

Chronology;
1. Introduction: perspectives on the African novel F. Abiola Irele;
2. The oral/literate interface Olukunle George;
3. Chinua Achebe and the African novel Dan Izevbaye;
4. Protest and resistance Barbara Harlow;
5. The Afrikaans novel Chris Warnes;
6. The African novel in Arabic Shaden Tageldin;
7. The Francophone novel in North Africa Bernard Aresu;
8. The Francophone African novel in Sub-Saharan Africa Lydie Moudileno;
9. The historical novel M. Keith Booker;
10. Magical realism and the African novel Ato Quayson;
11. The African novel and the feminine condition Nana Wilson-Tagoe;
12. Bildungsroman and autobiography Apollo Amoko;
13. The postcolonial condition Phyllis Taoua;
14. New voices and emerging themes Dominic Thomas;
15. The critical reception of the African novel Harry Garuba; Further reading; Index.