Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an
expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as
Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have
adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the
novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in
scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages
from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in
Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel
through an examination of the works that have either attained
canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of
Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to
further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point
for students of African and world literatures.
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