"A major reference text for African literature, providing solid information on the field in the various languages, and on authors, works, and movements. It will be invaluable."—Abiola Irele, author of The African Experience in Literature and Ideology "To date nothing quite as readable has appeared which does what this book attempts to do: to present a comprehensive view not only ... Read moreof the major issues around which debates in African writing have focused and continue to focus, but also a detailed inventory of the principal writers in the field in a portable text. . . . Owomoyela and his contributors have produced a book that anyone who desires to know the origins, principal figures, and the main trends and currents of African literatures and criticism in our time would find very useful."—Ode S. Ogede, Callaloo "This is a comprehensive examination of authors, works, and movements."—The Black Scholar Show Less