Modern African Literature / Ajay Das

1.Introduction
2.The african imagination
3.Literature in african language
4.Literary background
5.Contemporary african plays
6.An understanding of wole soyinka's yoruban world view
7.Chinua achebe:literary relations
8.The crisis of cultural memory in chinua achebe's things fall apart
9.Postcolonial identity and the position of english in african literature
10.The criticism of african fiction:its nature and function
11.Language and culture in african postcolonial literature
12.Examining canonisation in modern african literature
13.Perspective on the african novel
14.Thematic changes in postcolonial african literature:from colonialism to neocolonialism
15.South african theatre and the truth and reconciliation
16.J.M Coetzee, Ethics and the novel:some reflections on waiting for the barbarians

African literature is the body of traditional oral and written literature in Afro-asiatic and african language together with works written by africans in european languages.Traditional written literature which is limited to a smaller geographic area than is oral literature is most characteristic of those sub-saharan cultures that have participated in the culture of the mediterranean.