Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings

African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." Africa

The term "Modern African Art" is not an abuse of language. The 20th century has seen, but not properly documented, the birth, development, and maturation of con

In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition