The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
2 Volume Hardback Set

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
Chronology
1. Africa and orality Liz Gunner
2. The folk tale and its extensions Kwesi Yankah
3. Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa Tejumola Oaniyan
4. Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa Sabra Webber
5. Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa Lupenga Mphande
6. African oral epics Isidore Okpehwo
7. The oral tradition in the African diaspora Maureen Warner-Lewis
8. Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama Keith Q. Warner
9. Africa and writing Alain Ricard
10. Ethiopian literature Teodros Kiros
11. African literature in Arabic Farida Abu-Haidar
12. The Swahili literary tradition: and intercultural heritage Alamin Mazrui
13. Africa and the European Renaissance Silvie Kandé
14. The literature of slavery and abolition Moira Ferguson
15. Discourses of empire Robert Eric Livingston
16. African-language literatures of Southern Africa Daniel P. Kuene
17. Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngugi's later novels Ann Biersteker
18. The emergence of written Hausa literature Ausseina Alidou
19. Literature in Yoruba: poetry and prose
traveling theatre and modern drama Karin Barber
20. African literature and the colonial factor Simon Gikandi
21. The formative journals and institutions Milton Krieger
22. Literature in Afrikaans Ampie Coetzee
23. East African literature in English Simon Gikandi
24. Anglophone literature of Central Africa Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells
25. West African literature in English: beginnings to the mid-seventies Dan Izebaye
26. South African literature in English David Attwell
27. African literature in French: Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period Mildred Mortimer
28. North African literature in French Patricia Geesey
29. Francophone literatures of the Indian Ocean Bénédicte Maguiere
30. African literature in Spanish Mabre Ngom
31. African literature in Portuguese Russell Hamilton
32. Popular literature in Africa Ode S. Ogede
33. Caribbean literature in French: origins and development Nick Nesbitt
34. Caribbean literature in Spanish Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
35. Anglophone Caribbean literature Elaine Savory
36. The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude Movement F. Abiola Irele
37. Postcolonial Caribbean identities J. Michael Dash
38. African literature and post independence disillusionment Derek Wright
39. 'Postcolonial' African and Caribbean literature Adele King
40. Modernism and postmodernism in African literature Ato Quayson.