African Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Overview
African short fiction comes in various forms: derivations of traditional tales, such as Jomo Kenyatta’s “The Gentlemen of the Jungle” and Martha Mvungi’s “Mwipenza the Killer”; narratives that are too compact to be novels, such as Alex La Guma’s “A Walk in the Night”; and short narratives or stories ranging from a few pages to approximately ten pages. This body of writing can be appropriately considered a literature of neglect or a literature in search of critics. Unlike African long fiction, which has established a robust dialogue between writers and...
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