The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel

by F. Abiola Irele and F. Irele

Book Overview

Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052167168X
• ISBN13: 9780521671682
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"