This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity. Authors whose works are studied include Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Mongo Beti, and Camara Layer.

Last modified

• 08/10/2018

Creator

• Judith Illsley Gleason

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2CH9H

Subject

• African Studies

Publisher

• Northwestern University Press

Keyword

• Literature

Date created

• 1965

Resource type

• Book

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International