Essays on African Writing 1: A Re-Evaluation

by Abdulrazak Gurnah (editor)

This book is currently out of stock with a ready about date of December 31, 1999This new collection of essays takes a fresh look at major literary figures from the world of African writing. It reappraises literary criticism to date, and challenges readers' assumptions.

Genres: Novels

193 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. The most famous of his novels are Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".