African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race

"George rethinks the entirety of African literature by considering texts from the 19th century and mid-20th century alongside canonical texts." —Neil ten Kortenaar, author of Debt, Law, Realism
Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together—writings by little-known black missionaries, so called ...