Essays on African Writing, II: A Re-Evaluation

by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Editor)

This second book of essays reappraising literary criticism to date and challenging readers' assumptions includes: C. L. Innes on Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo; Belinda Jack on Assia Djebar; Lucy Stone McNeece on Tahar Ben Jelloun; Stewart Brown on contemporary Nigerian poetry; Hangson-Mpalive Msiska on Malawian poetry; Abdulrazak Gurnah on Dambudzo Marechera; Caroline Rooney on Chenjerai Hove's Bones and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Ato Quayson on Ben Okri; and Neloufer De Mel on Moyez Vassanji.

Genres: Novels

184 pages, Paperback

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".