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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
Ohio University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1842-0 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1843-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8214-4792-5 Library of Congress Classification Z465.3.C87 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 070.5096
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature captures the energy of literary publishing in a new and undefined field. Portraits of the leading characters and the many consultants and readers providing reports and advice to new and established writers make Africa Writes Back a stand-out book. James Currey’s voice and insights are an added bonus. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: The establishment of African Literature 1. WRITERS FROM WEST AFRICA 2. WRITERS FROM EASTERN AFRICA 3. WRITERS FROM THE HORN & NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA 4. WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA 5. WRITERS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICAN CONCLUSION: Is there still a role for the African Writers Series? See other books on: African | African literature | African literature (English) | Literature | Publishing See other titles from Ohio University Press |
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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Ohio University Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1842-0
Paper: 978-0-8214-1843-7
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4792-5
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1842-0
Paper: 978-0-8214-1843-7
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4792-5
June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser.
Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature captures the energy of literary publishing in a new and undefined field. Portraits of the leading characters and the many consultants and readers providing reports and advice to new and established writers make Africa Writes Back a stand-out book. James Currey’s voice and insights are an added bonus.
CONTENTS
Publishing and selling the African Writers Series
The African Writers Series Portfolio & George Hallett’s covers
Main dates for the African Writers Series
INTRODUCTION: The establishment of African Literature
Publishing Chinua Achebe
1. WRITERS FROM WEST AFRICA
Nigeria: The country where so much started
Negritude from Senegal to Cameroun
Magic & realism from Ghana, The Gambia & Sierra Leone
2. WRITERS FROM EASTERN AFRICA
Towards the oral & the popular in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania
Publishing Ngugi
3. WRITERS FROM THE HORN & NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA
Emperors in Ethiopia
Publishing Nuruddin Farah
Arab authors in Egypt & Sudan
4. WRITERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Resistance in South Africa
Publishing Alex la Guma
Publishing Dennis Brutus
Publishing Bessie Head
Publishing Masizi Kunene
5. WRITERS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICAN
Guns & Guerrillas in Mozambique &Angola
Zambia Shall be Free
Death & detention in Malawi
The struggle to become Zimbabwe
Publishing Dambudzo Marechera
CONCLUSION: Is there still a role for the African Writers Series?
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
