Although postcolonial studies has explored the historical influences and connections among
literatures throughout the world, it has considered African writing unique. By looking at …

In our broad use of the term" postcolonial" to characterize contempo? rary African culture,
there is an implicit understanding that the colonial experience played a critical role in …

because published abroad (and mostly read there) is not clear. This new genre has not only
been explained in terms of cultural hybridity, but has also been traced back to African oral …

Post-colonial African novels have become veritable weapons usedto dismantle the
hegemonic boundaries and determinants that create unequal relations ofpower, based on …

Postcolonial novels that tend to become popularly acclaimed in Western Europe and North
America share a number of features: they are predominantly written by women; they are …

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language
literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of …

Until recently, studies of postcolonial African novels emphasized the genre's relation to
anticolonial critique and its expression of collective resistance. In response to the …

In postcolonial discourse, religious missions are generally described as the benign mask of
empire, the enemy of African cultures and freedoms. While that critique has been a …

The post-colonial condition of African literature Page 1 THE POST-COLONIAL CONDITION OF
AFRICAN LITERATURE LTE Edited by Daniel Gover John Conteh-Morgan and Jane Bryce …