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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Comprises fourteen essays by Achebe, including “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness,” “The Novelist as Teacher,” and “Colonialist Criticism.”

———. Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays. London: Heinemann, 1975, enlarged and revised edition, New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975.

Includes “The African Writer and the English Language.”

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Controversial and theoretical work that argues against the concept of the pure or authentic in African cultures.

Booker, M. Keith. The African Novel in English: An Introduction. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1998.

In the introductory chapters, Booker...

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1. Introduction
2. Essay: Introduction
3. Representative Writers
4. Modern African Literature And Other Literary Movements
5. Hallmark Works Of Modern African Literature
6. Critical Responses To African Literature
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright

1. African Literature