This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using
the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African
diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current
critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and
issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the
argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside
contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection
among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate
elements within the continent and diaspora.
This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using
the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African
diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current
critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and
issues of...