Africa

Table of Contents - May 2012 - Volume 82, Issue 02  

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Review Article

MIGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN RECENT AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM

Katie Reid

AEDÍN NÍ LOINGSIGH, Postcolonial Eyes: intercontinental travel in francophone African literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (hb £65 – 978 1 84631 049 2). 2009, 224 pp.

OYEKAN OWOMOYELA, The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945. New York NY: Columbia University Press (hb £50 – 978 0 23112 686 1). 2008, 216 pp.

ARLENE A. ELDER, Narrative Shape-Shifting: myth, humor and history in the fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 012 4). 2009, 176 pp.

BRENDA COOPER, A New Generation of African Writers: migration, material culture and language. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 507 5). 2008, 192 pp.

Katie Reid is a PhD candidate at the University of Sussex, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her doctoral thesis explores theorizations of ‘the post-colonial’ and those of ‘African letters’ through a focus on the work of South African author and editor, Ivan Vladislavic (b. 1957). She is currently a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Austin, Texas (2011–12), and teaches at the University of Portsmouth and the University of Sussex. Email K.E.Reid@sussex.ac.uk