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Article: African Literatures in English: East and West. (General Area).(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Gareth Griffiths. African Literatures in English: East and West Harlow, England/New York. Longman 2000. xii + 414 pages. 18.99 [pounds sterling]/$32 ISBN 0-582-08925-5 (08926-3 paper)
THE COMPENDIUM African Literatures in English: East and West is part of a forty-seven-volume series from Longman, which when completed aims to "offer a practical and comprehensive guide to literature written in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present." This particular volume by Gareth Griffiths, who is well known for his groundbreaking work in postcolonial literatures, introduces anglophone literature from Africa south of the Sahara and north of Zambia, from the eighteenth ...