The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la litterature africaine

Half of the 14 essays are in French, the others in English, reflecting the multi-linguistic literature of post-colonial Africa. Scholars in Africa and the West discuss recent writers and works, as well as new critical approaches. The topics include new locations and changing paradigms in contemporary African literature, new women's accents in anglophone African fiction, Andr矇 Brink's prose oeuvre published after 2000, discourses of alterity in Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun, and the Centre for African Literary Studies at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal. No index is provided. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)