African Textualities: Texts, Pre-Texts, and Contexts of African Literature

by Bernth Lindfors

African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen against the backdrop of the times, traditions and circumstances that helped to shape them. In this book, all these approaches have been utilized, sometimes singly, sometimes in combination.

250 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Bernth O Lindfors is professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas.