Criticism > Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism > Postcolonial African Literature - Representative Works

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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart (novel) 1958
A Man of the People (novel) 1966
The Trouble with Nigeria (essays) 1983
Anthills of the Savannah (novel) 1987

Ayi Kwei Armah
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (novel) 1968
Fragments (novel) 1970
Why Are We So Blest? (novel) 1972
Two Thousand Seasons (novel) 1973
The Healers (novel) 1978

Amilcar Cabral
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amil Cabral (speeches) 1973

J.M. Coetzee
Foe (novel) 1987

William Conton
The African (novel) 1960

Frantz Fanon
L'An V de la revolution algerienne [A Dying Colonialism] (essays) 1959
Les Damnes de la terre [The Wretched of the Earth] (essays) 1961
Pour la revolution africaine: Ecrits politiques [Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays]...

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
   1. Neil Lazarus (essay date 1990)
   2. Graham Huggan (essay date 2001)
4. Criticism: Ideology And Theory
   1. Nicholas Visser (essay date 1997)
   2. Laura Moss (essay date autumn 2000)
5. Criticism: Postcolonial Testimonial Literature
   1. Neil Lazarus (essay date 1990)
   2. Jeannine DeLombard (essay date 1996)
6. Criticism: Major Authors
   1. Neil Lazarus (essay date 1990)
   2. Marni Gauthier (essay date June 1997)
   3. Ralph A. Austen (essay date fall 2000)
   4. Anne Donadey (essay date 2001)
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright

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