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Article: Essays on African Writing, vol. 1, A Re-evaluation.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Essays on African Writing 1: A Re-evaluation is a collection of studies (eleven in all, besides the introduction) purporting to reassess a number of major African authors whose works belong with the received canon of postcolonial "African literature." For those interested in the remarkable flowering of anglophone (and francophone) literature in postcolonial Africa, the book offers itself as a pathfinder opening up new vistas of understanding about some of the major texts in the canon.
The range of authors discussed in the book is indicative of the editor's avowed intention to rectify the "racist" bias that has generally tended to exclude South African writers because ...
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