Encyclopedia of African Literature

Encyclopedia of African Literature
Edited by Simon Gikandi

Routledge
ISBN: 9780415549622
May 2009
Paperback 648 Pages
Price: $59.95

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this easy-to-use book contains over 600 alphabetically arranged entries that cover major and less established African authors and texts, criticism and theory, and African Literature’s development as a field of scholarship.
Now available in paperback, this volume is an essential resource for students of African literature and a useful tool for those considering African culture across the fields of Literary Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies.