This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, Catherine Acholonu and Buchi Emecheta.
North America: Africa World Press
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African Literature Today Editors
Reviews
The concept of exile proves to be elastic, capable of covering political expulsion from the nation, region or language of one's birth, to economically enforced migration, to an inner kind of exile from one's self and surroundings more or less synonymous with psychological alienation and social anomie...one of the most admirable features of this volume and its precursors in the African Literature Today series (edited diligently by Eldred Jones over the last thirty years or so), is its promotion of African literature on the continent, and of writers who have not found their way into some readily assimilable academic niche of postcolonial world literature in English. - Simon Lewis in H-Net Africa
Details
First Published: 08 Jan 2000
13 Digit ISBN: 9780852555224
Pages: 160
Size: 21.6 x 13.8
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: James Currey
Series:
African Literature TodaySubject:
African StudiesBIC Class: GTB
Details updated on 08 Feb 2012
