ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today
Contributions by Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Eve Eisenberg, Hellen Roselyne L. Shigali, Imene Moulati, Iniobong I. Uko, James Gibbs, D Juliana Daniels, Lindsey Zanchettin, Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Mary Jane Androne, Maureen N. Eke, Regina Okafor, Rose Sackeyfio, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Vincent O. Odamtten Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Publication date:
21 November 2013Length of book:
191 pagesPublisher
James CurreyISBN-13: 9781782041962
The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature.
African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the African short story is now given the attention it deserves. Contributors here take a close look at the African short story to re-define its own peculiar pedigree, chart its trajectory, critique its present state and examineits creative possibilities. They examine how the short story and the novel complement each other, or exist in contradistinction, within the context of culture and politics, history and public memory, legends, myths and folklore.
Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities
Nigeria: HEBN
African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the African short story is now given the attention it deserves. Contributors here take a close look at the African short story to re-define its own peculiar pedigree, chart its trajectory, critique its present state and examineits creative possibilities. They examine how the short story and the novel complement each other, or exist in contradistinction, within the context of culture and politics, history and public memory, legends, myths and folklore.
Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities
Nigeria: HEBN