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What is the state of African creative fiction, African publishing, and African literary criticism in the first decades of the twenty-first century?
This volume focusses on the nature and message of contemporary African imaginative creativity, examining literary works, narrative techniques, and innovations, as well as the nature and state of the criticism applied in analysis and interpretation. Inspired by Chinua Achebe's view of contemporary African Literature as a balance of stories between Africa and the West, contributors reflect on how writers have responded to this vision and moved the narrative of the continent forward into the arena of world literature.
Articles on African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message / New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late / Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary / Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model / Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Literary Supplement
Reviews
This volume focusses on the nature and message of contemporary African imaginative creativity, examining literary works, narrative techniques, and innovations, as well as the nature and state of the criticism applied in analysis and interpretation. Inspired by Chinua Achebe's view of contemporary African Literature as a balance of stories between Africa and the West, contributors reflect on how writers have responded to this vision and moved the narrative of the continent forward into the arena of world literature.
Articles on African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message / New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late / Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary / Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model / Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Literary Supplement
Reviews
Price: $120.00
Pages: 176
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Currey
Series: African Literature Today
Publication Date:
27 October 2026
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.43 in
ISBN: 9781847014801
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Notes on Contributors
EDITORIAL ARTICLE
African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message
ERNEST N. EMENYONU
ARTICLES
New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late
ROSE SACKEYFIO
Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
TOLULOPE AKINRINDE
Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary
KUFRE FRIESENHAN
Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
NONYE AHUMIBE
The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model
EKIKEREOBONG USORO AND FRIDAY OKON
Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
PARAMITA ROUTH ROY
TRIBUTES
Nnolim on Achebe
BERNTH LINDFORS
The astounding formalist has joined the ancestors: A tribute to Professor Charles Nnolim
AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO
Encounters with Ngũgĩ the Wrestler
GICHINGIRI NDIGIRIGI
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A Living Soul
ESTHER PAUL JOHNSON
Tanji
Carthage
TIJAN M. SALLAH
REVIEWS
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, We, the Kindling
ADEMOLA ADESOLA
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Lizi Ashimole, The Other Insider
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Maik Nwosu, The Book of Everything
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Linda Jummai Mustafa, What If...?
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Dez Udezue, The Eden Ruse, Amadioha's Rebellion
INIOBONG UKO
Kofi Anyidoho, See What They've Done To Our SunRise: New Poems from an Old Loom
JEROME MASAMAKA
EDITORIAL ARTICLE
African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message
ERNEST N. EMENYONU
ARTICLES
New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late
ROSE SACKEYFIO
Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
TOLULOPE AKINRINDE
Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary
KUFRE FRIESENHAN
Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
NONYE AHUMIBE
The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model
EKIKEREOBONG USORO AND FRIDAY OKON
Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
PARAMITA ROUTH ROY
TRIBUTES
Nnolim on Achebe
BERNTH LINDFORS
The astounding formalist has joined the ancestors: A tribute to Professor Charles Nnolim
AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO
Encounters with Ngũgĩ the Wrestler
GICHINGIRI NDIGIRIGI
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A Living Soul
ESTHER PAUL JOHNSON
Tanji
Carthage
TIJAN M. SALLAH
REVIEWS
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, We, the Kindling
ADEMOLA ADESOLA
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Lizi Ashimole, The Other Insider
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Maik Nwosu, The Book of Everything
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Linda Jummai Mustafa, What If...?
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE
Dez Udezue, The Eden Ruse, Amadioha's Rebellion
INIOBONG UKO
Kofi Anyidoho, See What They've Done To Our SunRise: New Poems from an Old Loom
JEROME MASAMAKA