Capturing the diversity of African writing from across the continent, this important anthology draws together well-established authors and the best of new writers. From the harsh realities of South Africa, elegantly described by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, to the fantastic world of Booker Prize winner Ben Okri and from the magic realism of Mozambican Mia Couto to the surreal world of Ghanaian Kojo Laing, the editors have distilled the essence of contemporary African writing. Blending the supernatural and the secular, the market-place and the shrine, this anthology gives the reader a taste of the full range of African literary styles.

Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Achebe, Chinua

Innes, C.L.

History & Criticism

Heinemann

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland and Britain. Lyn Innes compares the ways in which authors shape communal identities and interrogate the values and representations of peoples in newly independent nations. Placing its emphasis on literary rather than theoretical texts, this book offers detailed discussion of many internationally renowned authors, including James Joyce, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Les Murray and Derek Walcott. It also includes historical surveys of the main countries discussed, a glossary, and biographical notes on major authors. Lyn Innes provides a rich and subtle guide to a vast array of authors and texts from a wide range of sites.

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

This is the first comprehensive history of Black and Asian writers in Britain since the eighteenth century. Utilizing a wealth of new archival material, Lynn Innes examines writers who arrived in England as slaves and whose work later became extremely popular. Innes examines their work as part of an acceptance of and challenge to British cultural and ideological discourses. She reveals a history of vigorous and fertile interaction between Black, Asian and white intellectuals and communities, and offers a rich historical context for understanding contemporary British multicultural society and culture.

A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700–2000

Now updated and available in paperback, this is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or slaves in the mid-eighteenth century, Innes includes a detailed discussion of works that were often enormously popular in their own time but are almost unknown to contemporary readers. Innes's fascinating study reveals a history of vigorous and fertile interaction between black, Asian and white intellectuals and communities, and an enormously rich and varied literary culture which was already in existence before the post-war efflorescence of black and Asian writing. Utilising a wealth of archival material, Innes examines their work as part of an acceptance of and challenge to British cultural and ideological discourses. This volume offers a rich historical background for understanding contemporary British multicultural society and culture and will be of interest to literary and cultural historians.

A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain

Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935

Univ of Georgia Pr

A contribution to the growing analysis of the interplay between gender and nationality in the cultural conceptions of Irishness and Irish identity. Innes (post-colonial literature, U. of Kent, England) focuses on how women writers and activists responded to the male constructed images of national consciousness during the decades before and after independence. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Devil's Own Mirror: The Irishman and the African in Modern Literature

World Literature

Passeggiata Press

Passeggiata Pr

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Books by Innes, C.L.

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Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700–2000

A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935

Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935

The Devil's Own Mirror: The Irishman and the African in Modern Literature

The Devil's Own Mirror: The Irishman and the African in Modern Literature