Writing and Africa

This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa this collection touches on studies in black writing colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions and then builds on this to discuss major issues such as oral tradition the significance of `literature' as a western import representations of Africa in western writing African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world popular writing and the representation of women.