African literature refers to the literature of and for the African peoples.As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa,while the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters,the African concept includes oral literature.
As George Joseph continues,while European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content,African awareness is inclusive.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson
Part 1: Backgrounds
1 Africa and Writing
Main Ricard (2004)
2 Sub-Saharan Africa's Literary History in a Nutshell
Albert S.Gerard (1993)
3 Politics, Culture, and Literary Form
Bernth Lindfors (1979)
4 African Literature in Portuguese
Russell G.Hamilton (2004)
5 North African Writing
Anissa Talahite (1997)
6 A Continent and its Literatures in French
Jonathan Ngate (i 988)
7 African Literature and the Colonial Factor
Simon Gikandi (2004)
8 African Literature: Myth or Reality?
V.Y.Mudimbe (1985)
Part 2 Orality,Literacy,and the Interface
Part 3 Writer,Writing,and Function
Part 4 Creativity in/and Adversarial Contexts
Part 5 On Nativism and the Quest for Indigenous Aesthetics:Negritude and Traditionalism
Part 6 The Language of African Literature
Part 7 On Genres
Part 8 Therrizing the Criticism of African Literature
Part 9 Marxism
Part 10 Feminism
Part 11 Structuralism,Poststructuralism,Postcolonialism,and Postmodernism
Part 12 Ecocritcism
Part 13 Queer,Postcolonial