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Article: Toward the Decolonization of African Literature: African Fiction and Poetry and Their Critics. (Book Reviews (Africa)). (book review)
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- Journal of Asian and African Studies
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- August 1, 2001
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Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and Lhechukwu Madubuike, Toward the Decolonization of African Literature: African Fiction and Poetry and Their Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 320 pp. $25.50.
Given the ongoing scepticism within African literary criticism about what has variously been called "Neo-Tarzanism" (Wole Soyinka), "nativism" (Anthony Appiah), and the "primitive idyllic view of Africa" (Chidi Amuta), the reissue of this book (twenty years after it first appeared in book form and some twenty-five years after its chapters were first published in journals) may appear to many as an anachronism. The task that the three authors set for ...