The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership /
Mukoma Wa Ngugi.
- 228 pages ; 23 cm.
- African perspectives .
Introduction. Manufacturing the African novel : the Makerere writers and questions of language, identity, and ownership -- No shrubbing in the English metaphysical empire, please : a question of language -- Amos Tutuola : creating the African literary bogeyman -- Africa's missing literary history : from A. C. Jordan's Child of two worlds to Noviolet Bulawayo's fractured multiple worlds -- Manufacturing the African literary canon : costs and opportunities -- Toward a rooted transnational African literature : politics of image and naming.
9780472053681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017053328
African fiction--History and criticism.--19th century African fiction--History and criticism.--20th century