Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject
of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of
intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the
availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a
creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors
adapt, reinterpret, and redeploy existing texts in the formulation
of new ones. Contemporary African writers are taking advantage of
and extending the resources available in the existing native
literary tradition. But the field of inter-ethnic/trans-national
African literary inter-textual studies is a novel one in itself as
the theme of African writers' debt to Euro-American authors has
been the critical commonplace in African literature. Detailing the
echoes and reverberations the voices of the past have generated,
and the distinctive uses to which the writers are putting one
another's works, the book demonstrates that the influence of local
stock is significant: it is pervasive and widespread, and manifests
itself in ways both random and systematic, but it is a ubiquitous
presence in the African literary imagination.
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