This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on
themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors …

This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re) configurations of resistance
and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial …

MaureeN N. eke, MarIe kruger, aNd MIldred MortIMer, gueSt edItorS a number of African
nations have been born out of, or find themselves emerging from, a history of violent conflict …

At the beginning of a new millennium, and almost half a decade after the first African nation
became independent, issues of politics and questions as to the role of the writer in the …

Which modalities of postcolonial theory gained currency within the literary-cultural
discourses of the South African academy? In seeking to answer this, I highlight the key …

A lthough African countries have been independent since the 1960s, criticism of each
country's art and literature continues to be heavily influenced by European literary models …

This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural
production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically …

I was born in the English-speaking South West Province of Cameroon and raised in the
English-speaking North West Province where I was educated in a system of primary through …

African writers have a deepening susceptibility for social and political commitment as their
texts depict socio-political events in their societies. Markedly, modern African literature arose …

The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by
Africa's response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably …