Features
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press February 1, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0253215102
ISBN-13: 978-0253215109
Product Dimensions:
9 x 8 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
" . . . an essential resource for scholars interested in African writing and culture, and . . . postcolonial studies." --Lyn Innes Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature together with eight primary texts. This lively volume includes selections by Alex LaGuma, Bernth Lindfors, and Dorothy Driver.
About The Author
Stephanie Newell is Smuts Memorial Research Fellow in African Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana (just approved for IUP co-pub with Manchester UP), Ghanaian Popular Fiction (Currey; Ohio, 2000), and editor of Images of African and Caribbean Women: Migration, Displacement, Diaspora (Centre for Commonwealth Studies, 1996), Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic (Centre for Commonweatlh Studies, 1995), and Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and Literature in West Africa (Zed Books, 1997).
