African Literature and Social Change

<p>Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other <i>African Literature and Social Change</i> reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together--writings by little-known black missionaries so called black whitemen and better-known 20th century intellectuals and creative writers--Olakunle George shows the ways in which these writings have addressed notions of ethnicity nation and race and how the debates need to be rehistoricized today. George presents Africa as a site of complex desires and contradictions refashioning the way African literature is positioned within current discussions of globalism diaspora and postcolonialism.</p>