Postcolonial African Literature - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Booker, M Keith. “African Literature and the World System: Dystopian Fiction, Collective Experience, and the Postcolonial Condition.” Research in African Literatures 26, no. 4 (winter 1995): 58-75.

Discusses the differences between Western and African dystopian visions, focusing on the difficulties faced by African authors who are attempting to create cultural identities while trying to escape the dominance of bourgeois ideology.

Ingersoll, Earl G. “Reconstructing Masculinity in the Postcolonial World of Bessie Head.” Ariel 29, no. 3 (July 1998): 95-116.

Proposes that Bessie Head's writing reflected her concerns about the need for a redefinition of both masculine and feminine identities in Botswana as one of the first and most significant steps towards establishing a postcolonial national identity.

Kruger, Loren. “‘That Fluctuating Movement of National...

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