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Modern African Stories is an anthology of postcolonial African short stories, edited by Ghanaian writer and poet Ellis Ayitey Komey and South African writer, poet, and critic Es'kia Mphahlele. The anthology was published in London by Faber and Faber, in 1964.
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African Literature [3] in Understanding Contemporary Africa, whereas European views of literature stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive and "literature" can also simply mean an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone.
Brittle Paper publishes original content submitted by authors, as well as commissioned reviews, interviews, essays, and other literary work. Having grown into "a thriving community of readers and writers interested in everything about African literature", [12] the blog is regarded as a major publicity platform for new books by African writers.
The magazine publishes new and established, emerging and contemporary work by artists across the African diaspora in artistic disciplines including literature, visual, sound, and mixed media.It is abstracted and indexed in the Modern Language Association Database. [2]
Eustace Palmer's An Introduction to the African Novel (1972) disregarded one and disparaged another of the two books later considered masterpieces of African literature: Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard, which Larson praised highly and considered one of the continent's "literary landmarks", and Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters, which Palmer ...
African Writing Today is an anthology of postcolonial African literature, mostly short stories and a few poems, edited by South African writer, poet, and critic Es'kia Mphahlele. The anthology was published in London by Penguin Books in 1967. [1] Much of the literature in the anthology is from West and Southern Africa.
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The African Writers Series (AWS) is a collection of books written by African novelists, poets and politicians. Published by Heinemann , 359 books appeared in the series between 1962 and 2003. [ 1 ]